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Bedtime


Definition:

  • (n.) The time to go to bed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent data suggest that administering cimetidine 800 mg at bedtime has less effect on the serum concentrations of warfarin and theophylline than other dosing regimens.
  • (2) Miconazole nitrate was administered once daily, at bedtime, for 14 days to 55 pregnant and non-pregnant patients.
  • (3) The evening before the ACTH test, each subject took dexamethasone (1 mg at bedtime) to suppress the early morning surge of ACTH.
  • (4) Thirty-nine patients whose endoscopic lesions improved were then randomized to a ten-month maintenance regimen of either cimetidine 400 mg at bedtime or placebo.
  • (5) The effect of a single, oral bedtime dose of the benzodiazepine hypnotics flunitrazepam (FR; 2 mg), flurazepam (FR; 30 mg), and triazolam (TR; 0.5 mg) on the sleep stages and the sleep EEG was investigated in eight healthy, young subjects.
  • (6) Dosing in the double-blind trials was 100 mg at bedtime, but in open-label trials patients could increase the dosage of nabumetone to 1500 or 2000 mg if required.
  • (7) Recently, the use of bedtime NPH or ultralente insulin has been emphasized for control of moderate hyperglycemia in these patients.
  • (8) Chlorthalidone was changed to bedtime administration and taken with the study medications.
  • (9) One hundred sixty-two patients chronically ingesting ibuprofen, piroxicam, or naproxen for osteoarthritis, who had abdominal pain and an endoscopically proven gastric ulcer were evaluated for eight weeks in a randomized, double-blind trial comparing misoprostol (200 micrograms four times daily with meals and at bedtime) (N = 77) with placebo (N = 85).
  • (10) Thirty-two women with recurrent urinary tract infections were treated after eradication of existing infections with a mixture of 40 mg of trimethoprim and 200 mg of sulfamethoxazole thrice weekly at bedtime for six months.
  • (11) Although trazodone therapy has been associated with lethargy, dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion in some patients, symptoms have been mild and can be further minimized by administering the drug either after meals or once daily at bedtime.
  • (12) The author compares the efficacy of ranitidine 300 mg in a single bedtime dose, and ranitidine 150 mg twice daily, in 509 duodenal ulcer patients treated in two Italian multicentre trials.
  • (13) Eight factors were investigated as possible correlates of percentage REM sleep and of total minutes of REM sleep: age, height, weight, bedtime, arising time, oral temperature at bedtime and on arising, and total sleep time.
  • (14) In the first two weeks of life rectal temperature changed little overnight, but by 6 weeks of age rectal temperature at bedtime was significantly higher than later in the night.
  • (15) Treatment consisted of daily coal tar emulsion baths at bedtime, followed by the application of 0.05 percent diflorasone diacetate ointment.
  • (16) 120 adult outpatients with endoscopically proven duodenal ulcer were randomly allocated to three groups of 40, treated in a double-blind manner with cimetidine 400 mg twice daily, trimoprostil 3 mg twice daily and trimoprostil 3 mg at bedtime.
  • (17) Bedtime dosing of hydroxyzine was investigated as a dosing strategy to minimize reaction time degradation and adverse subjective symptoms previously documented for hydroxyzine in divided doses.
  • (18) Psychiatric patients on multiple-dosage schedules reported no more frightening dreams than the medical patients, whereas almost three-fourths of those receiving single bedtime doses had frightening dreams, a significant difference from the medical sample.
  • (19) The results of this study demonstrated that nabumetone, 1,000 mg at bedtime, is as efficacious as aspirin, 900 mg four times daily, produces fewer adverse effects, and is indicated in the treatment of osteoarthritis.
  • (20) A randomized controlled trial was carried out to compare the efficacy of conventional 400 mg twice daily dose of cimetidine with single bedtime 800 mg dose, in 40 patients with endoscopically proven duodenal ulcer.

Hour


Definition:

  • (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  • (n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
  • (n.) Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
  • (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  • (n.) A measure of distance traveled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (3) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (4) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
  • (5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (6) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (7) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
  • (8) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
  • (9) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (10) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
  • (11) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (12) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (13) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (14) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (15) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
  • (16) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
  • (17) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
  • (18) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
  • (19) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (20) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.

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