(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.
Therapeutic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Therapeutical
(n.) One of the Therapeutae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(3) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(4) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
(5) No difference in therapeutic activity between CNC-ala-17-E2 and CNC-ala could be observed in a transplanted rat leukemia (L 5222).
(6) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(7) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(8) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(9) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(10) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(11) Local injections of contrykal into the ulcer had inhibited proteinase activity and had a positive therapeutic effect.
(12) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(13) We report on experiences with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the results of vocational rehabilitation.
(14) On the other hand, the patients treated with cimetidine showed a marked, systematic increase in theophylline plasma levels, even exceeding the upper limit of its known therapeutic range in 4 cases.
(15) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(16) Pharmacodynamic relationships are not well established for other therapeutic effects of theophylline, such as attenuation of pharmacologically induced bronchoconstriction.
(17) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(18) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(19) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(20) How useful is the technique for evaluating therapeutic efficacy?