(n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of respondents (104 or 51 percent) used cathartics and enemas as the primary method of mechanical bowel cleansing.
(2) Decreases in total activity were found for both cathartics in the antrum and ileum.
(3) These results indicate the cathartic effect of lactulose in smaller animals such as rats as well as humans and suggest the possible application of full doses of lactulose to flush the luminal contents from the small intestine.
(4) A study was done in volunteers to determine the rapidity of gastrointestinal transit when activated charcoal was administered with various cathartics.
(5) Naturally-occurring agonists at this receptor may include members of the cathartic class of drugs such as colocynth, chrysarobin, etc.
(6) Although women and hysterics may cry more easily in daily life, obsessives are apparently more able to maintain focus on unhappy experiences and are therefore able to express more emotion in cathartic therapy.
(7) Not everyone’s experience online is cathartic and unfettered.
(8) Attacking Trump as a douchebag might be cathartic, but it’s unlikely to be effective.
(9) The cathartic moment, in which the king realises he's OK and lovable just as he is, was wonderful for the film-makers to discover, and has been wonderful for worldwide audiences ever since (and the king doesn't die… he merely "croaks").
(10) It is impossible to determine whether OHSA had a specific cathartic action from this study since the data implicated total fatty acids to the same extent.
(11) Papaverine inhibited little the cathartic effect of all three spasmogens, while morphine had a potent and nonspecific inhibitory effect on the cathartic action of all three spasmogens.
(12) To our knowledge, cathartic-induced complete rectal prolapse has not been reported previously in the current medical literature, despite the thousands of bowel preparations performed annually.
(13) Accompanied by prolonged silences, it makes the recipients go weak at the knees and blurt out bumbling apologies, as we saw with Nixon's cathartic admission – and then, of course, forgiveness.
(14) Feedback that is delivered cathartically will serve no one.
(15) Had American television viewers been perched instead on the edge of a therapist’s couch or the end of a polished zinc bar at 2am, it would still have qualified as an exceptionally candid and cathartic exchange for anyone to witness.
(16) The anti-inflammatory salicylates, nonspecific antidiarrhoeal agents, laxatives and cathartics will be dealt with in Part II.
(17) Unlike the highly hypertonic Gastrografin, Amipaque causes less changes in hematocrit, and has only a very mild cathartic effect.
(18) These results demonstrate a very high frequency of inadequate barium enema examinations in the very old and suggest a need for improved methods of bowel preparation in this patient population, especially in those who are long-term users of laxatives and cathartics.
(19) Sixty patients were prospectively randomized to receive a 1-day preparation with sulfate free-electrolyte lavage solution or a 3-day preparation using a clear liquid diet, cathartics, and enemas.
(20) Although lactulose, a widely used cathartic, is known to increase stool frequency, details of its site of action in the colon are obscure.
Relaxing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relax
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
(10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
(12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.