What's the difference between chloralism and morbid?
Chloralism
Definition:
(n.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present experiments, single unit recording and microiontophoretic techniques were used to determine the effects of benzodiazepines on DA and non-DA neurons in the VTA of chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(2) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(3) (2) Highly aneuploid and polyploid types were induced in diploid and haploid germinating conidia by chloral hydrate but not to any significant extent by gamma-rays.
(4) When the mice were anesthetized with chloral hydrate prior to preparation of tissue slices, morphine produced a dose-dependent suppression of noradrenergic neuronal activity.
(5) We tested nine (cadmium chloride, chloral hydrate, colchicine, diazepam, econazole nitrate, hydroquinone, pyrimethamine, thiabendazole, thimerosal) of the 10 known or suspected spindle poisons of the coordinated programme to study aneuploidy induction sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities using Saccharomyces cerevisiae D61.M (mitotic chromosomal malsegregation system).
(6) Isolated mouse lung Clara cells were shown to metabolize trichloroethylene to chloral, trichloroethanol and trichloroacetic acid.
(7) At elevated pH and temperature, chloral hydrate readily decomposed and chloroform and formic acid were detected as products.
(8) Capillary mean transit time was determined by detection of the passage of a hemodilution bolus through a region of the parietal cerebral cortical surface, using a reflectance spectrophotometer through a small craniotomy in chloral hydrate-anesthetized rats.
(9) This protective effect of chloral hydrate was not due to an anesthetic-induced hypothermia but may be related to the hypothesized role of dopamine in the neurotoxic effects of MDMA.
(10) Anticonvulsants (carbamazepine, phenytoin, barbiturates), anxiolytics (diazepam, bromazepam), as well as other drugs or hormones such as lithium, chloral hydrate, L-tryptophan or L-thyroxine did not interfere with the assay.
(11) These values were significantly less (P less than 0.01) than control values only in those patients receiving chloral hydrate who did not cooperate.
(12) The electrophysiological effects of the non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist (+)-MK-801 (MK-801) on nigrostriatal and mesoaccumbal dopaminergic (DA) neurons were evaluated in chloral hydrate-anesthetized rats.
(13) enhances activity of several hypnotic drugs (pentobarbital, barbital, chloral hydrate) in mice but is without effect upon hypnotic activity of ethanol.
(14) SKF 38393 exerted no effect in reserpinized rats anesthetized with chloral hydrate.
(15) Significant increases in CREST-positive micronuclei were produced by cadmium chloride, chloral hydrate, colchicine, diazepam and vinblastine.
(16) Body temperature rises briefly, sleep induced with chloral hydrate is shortened, and high doses enhance amphetamine-induced stereotypy.
(17) Analysis of our experimental findings suggests that chloral hydrate exerts a specific anxiolytic drug effect that can be potentiated by concurrent treatment with nitrous oxide.
(18) All additives tested (ethyl alcohol, glycerine, chloral hydrate, ethylene and propylene glycol, and citric, malonic and maleic acids) in varying degrees limited the conversion of hematein to insoluble compounds.
(19) The only side effect found was vomiting in one patient with both chloral hydrate and diazepam.
(20) A synergistic relationship is illustrated with the loss of righting reflex after combinations of ethanol and chloral hydrate.
Morbid
Definition:
(a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(4) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
(5) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
(6) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
(8) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(9) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(10) By vaccinating adult dogs in boarding kennels the morbidity rate dropped from 83.5% to 6.5% and the mortality rate from 4.1% to 0.5%.
(11) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
(12) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(13) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
(14) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(15) Although some modes of therapy are effective, there is a significant associated morbidity and mortality.
(16) A patient died after gastric surgery for morbid obesity.
(17) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(18) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
(19) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(20) The morbidity and mortality rates among the mothers and children are low.