What's the difference between catnip and intoxication?

Catnip


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Catmint

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The onesie-wearing 21-year-old is the darling of the glossies and tabloid catnip, a social media princess and a talented musician, best mates with Rihanna, parties with Prince Harry and about to break into Hollywood.
  • (2) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
  • (3) Relationships between the younger, single members of staff were purest catnip to us; we were always turning love triangles into love trapeziums.
  • (4) Fractionation of the commercial sample of catnip oil by either distillation or gc yielded 40% nepetalactone and 43% nepetalic acid.
  • (5) All of this makes it catnip to users – and to the media, which dutifully reports every twist and turn on the site.
  • (6) However, removal of the vomeronasal organ did not attenuate any of the behavioral reactions to catnip.
  • (7) But Europe is the catnip that makes Tory eyes cross, and the next two years are going to be wall-to-wall Europe.
  • (8) The rolling and rubbing during a catnip reaction might be a sexual response activated by the accessory olfactory system since the system projects to parts of the brain involved in mediation of sexual behavior.
  • (9) Olfactory bulbectomy immediately eliminated catnip responding, revealing that the chemosensory stimulus evoking the catnip reaction is undoubtedly mediated through the main olfactory system.
  • (10) Catnip oil, nepetalic acid, and a nepetalactone-enriched fraction were evaluated for toxicological and behavioral effects in mice and rats.
  • (11) Lincoln is measured, respectful and quietly reassuring; unadulterated awards catnip.
  • (12) Nor will you find him out and about at gigs or parties or openings or any of the usual stuff that's rockbiz catnip.
  • (13) The area was obviously catnip to people who wanted something more from life than can be bought in Walmart.
  • (14) But the other thought is that the campaign is proving to be catnip to Gove’s personal ambitions.
  • (15) In the chewing and mouthing of the catnip source, substances might be dissolved in saliva and transported to the vomeronasal organ.
  • (16) The alcohol extract of catnip has a biphasic effect on the behavior of young chicks.
  • (17) And if they do, they’d like her as mangled up as possible.” Clinton said other candidates were able to avoid scrutiny by continuously talking about things that are “catnip to the people who get bored talking about” candidates’ positions on serious issues.
  • (18) 1.8m page views, 1,139 comments 5) Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' Tuesday 9 April 2013 The comedian's periodic columns for the Guardian this year rarely failed to cause a stir, but this one , about Thatcher's death, proved particular catnip.
  • (19) cis,trans-Nepetalactone, the biologically active component of catnip, was force-fed to the domestic cat.
  • (20) Rats were injected with saline and then exposed for 20 min to the presence of a domestic cat pretreated with catnip.

Intoxication


Definition:

  • (n.) A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
  • (n.) The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.
  • (n.) A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
  • (2) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (3) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (4) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (5) Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common complaints.
  • (6) Dietary pretreatment of Cr(VI)-intoxicated rats with ascorbic acid or alpha-tocopherol normalized vitamin C levels in lungs but not in kidneys.
  • (7) The onset of the symptoms usually occurs within a few minutes after ingestion of the implicated food, and the duration of symptoms ranges from a few hours to 24 h. Antihistamines can be used effectively to treat this intoxication.
  • (8) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
  • (9) The alterations might rather be attributed to unspecific disorders in the energy balance or to the effect of "stress" during intoxication.
  • (10) Al hepatocytes overload appeared only in nuclei and not in nuclei and not in lysosomes, contrarily to chronic intoxications.
  • (11) The addition of isoproterenol corrected partially or completely all bupivacaine-induced abnormalities, and decreased sinus cycle length, suggesting a potential therapeutic value in the treatment of bupivacaine intoxication.
  • (12) Quality of anaesthesia and risk of intoxication are competing principles in IVRA.
  • (13) The maximal density of [3H] 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n- propylamino)tetralin [( 3H] 8-OH-DPAT) binding (Bmax) to 5-HT1a receptors was decreased by 25 and 17% in the hippocampus during chronic ethanol intoxication and withdrawal, respectively.
  • (14) Thus, in cases of methyl alcohol intoxication, as in other clinical situations, hyperamylasemia, even when striking, should not be equated with pancreatitis.
  • (15) A 51-year-old manic woman who developed acute severe lithium intoxication with neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity during rapid abatement of manic episode was reported.
  • (16) The inhibition of cholinesterase and carboxylesterase activities in the diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) intoxication, and the inducibility of organophosphate (OP) detoxicating enzymes was studied in rats.
  • (17) Disorders of tissue respiration can be caused by two factors: inflammatory intoxication of organs and tissues and chronic oxygen insufficiency in tissues.
  • (18) There was no evidence of either myocardial infarction, abnormal electrolyte state, or digitalis intoxication.
  • (19) It is found that acute ethanol intoxication is accompanied by a decrease in the ascorbic acid content in the brain, liver and kidneys.
  • (20) Slight cerebral intoxication could be seen in four patients, with no correlation with possibly high lidocaine concentrations.