(n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(2) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(3) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(4) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(5) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
(6) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(7) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(8) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(9) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(10) A randomised double-blind trial comparing this preparation with a so-called 'shotgun' combination containing 0.05% betamethasone 17-valerate, 0.1% gentamicin, 1.0% tolnaftate and 1.0% clioquinol in 288 patients in the Philippines resulted in a better efficacy for the diflucortolone preparation in the 80 patients with bacterially or mycotically infected skin diseases.
(11) Blinded outcomes of depression and cognition were measured initially and twice in each phase.
(12) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
(13) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(14) In a double-blind, randomized, within-patient comparative study, the efficacy and tolerability of Ro 14-9706 (an arotinoid methyl sulfone) in the treatment of actinic keratoses was compared with that of tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid).
(15) Eighteen adult epileptic patients under CBZ therapy were evaluated in this single-blind, randomized cross-over study.
(16) A total of 17 patients suffering from musculoskeletal disease were included in a double blind study to compare the efficacy and safety of piroxicam and indomethacin.
(17) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
(18) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.
(19) They then entered, on a randomized and double-blind basis, a cross-over trial of two 16-week periods, blood pressure being measured fortnightly.
(20) The design was a single-blind randomised controlled study.
Cecity
Definition:
(n.) Blindness.
Example Sentences:
(1) An animal model for Clostridium butyricum necrotizing cecitis has been developed in axenic chickens inoculated orally between 2 and 50 days of life.
(2) The tissue level of endogenous prostaglandins seems to exert protection since administration of cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin and aspirin, markedly increased the incidence of cecitis.
(3) The cecitis lesions were well developed 3 and 4 weeks after oral inoculation, including enlargement with an increase of the cecum weight-body weight ratio, a marked hyperplasia, congestion, inflammatory infiltrate and pneumatosis of the cecal wall and mesentery, hemorrhage in the lamina propria and submucosa, and ulcerations and necrotic areas in the mucosa.
(4) A highly toxigenic strain of C. difficile readily induced cecitis in germfree and antibiotic-treated conventional mice, and histological examination frequently revealed pseudomembranes.
(5) Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that cefoxitin causes Clostridium difficile cecitis in prairie dogs.
(6) These data show that passive immunity induced by monoclonal antibodies against toxin A was effective against pseudomembranous cecitis.
(7) Cecitis was obtained with two C. butyricum strains isolated from neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and not with a Clostridium beijerinckii strain from dairy products; the rate of colonization of the intestinal tract by this strain was lower than that obtained with C. butyricum strains.
(8) Castor oil also prevented the cecitis and peanut oil exerted partial protection.
(9) The prophylaxis of the diabetes is the true prophylaxis of the cecity.
(10) The presence of 4% lactose in the diet seemed to be a prerequisite for the development of cecitis in chickens.
(11) Acute inflammation of the colon (cecitis) was produced in hamsters by daily subcutaneous administration of an antibiotic for 3 days.
(12) Saccharomyces boulardii, a nonpathogenic yeast, was found to be effective in preventing clindamycin cecitis recurrence in an animal model.
(13) These results demonstrate that in prairie dogs cefoxitin induces C. difficile cecitis.
(14) The fatness as a factor of risk for the diabetic retinopathy and consecutively for the appearance of the cecity have less been studied.
(15) Magnesium sulfate given orally and sodium salicylate given subcutaneously reduced the incidence of cecitis only partially.
(16) The following prostaglandins completely prevented the cecitis: 16,16-dimethyl-PGE2, 15(R)-15-methyl-PGE2, and 2-acetyl-2-decarboxy-15(S)-15-methyl-PGF2 alpha.
(17) Hamsters given the new penicillin temocillin, either orally or by injection, did not develop antibiotic-associated colitis, whereas animals given the control antibiotics cefoxitin or clindamycin developed the disease, which is characterized by marked hemorrhagic cecitis and high cecal levels of Clostridium difficile cytotoxin.
(18) The doxium and the photocoagulation could eventually make the cecity to be late but they belong to the group of treatment, but it is not a prophylactic element for cecity.
(19) The purpose of this work was to estimate the relationship between the proteases and the C. difficile toxins produced in a gnotobiotic mouse model of pseudomembranous cecitis.