What's the difference between clinic and clonic?

Clinic


Definition:

  • (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
  • (n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
  • (n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  • (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
  • (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (3) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (6) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (7) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (8) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (9) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (10) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
  • (11) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (12) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
  • (13) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
  • (14) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
  • (15) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
  • (16) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (17) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (18) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
  • (19) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (20) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.

Clonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Having an irregular, convulsive motion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (2) The effects of low doses of dihydropyridine (DHP) calcium channel antagonists nimodipine, nifedipine, (-)-R-202-791, and amlodipine, the DHP calcium channel agonist BAY K 8644 were investigated on clonic convulsions to pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) in mice.
  • (3) Overall, carbamazepine and phenytoin are recommended drugs of first choice for single-drug therapy of adults with partial or generalized tonic-clonic seizures or with both.
  • (4) A nervous syndrome characterized by clonic convulsive episodes inducible by exercise, developed at day 11.
  • (5) Emergent management is imperative for convulsive tonic-clonic (grand mal) status epilepticus, but there are nonconvulsive types of status epilepticus in which the problem is more one of correct diagnosis than emergent management.
  • (6) These events were often accompanied by clonic activity of the neck muscles and mouth movements in an epileptic automatism.
  • (7) If the epileptic discharge spreads throughout both cerebral hemispheres, the child will have a secondarily generalized tonic-clonic convulsion.
  • (8) The thresholds for metrazol (pentylenetetrazol) clonic convulsions and brain gamma-aminobutyric acid contents were significantly reduced after treatment with the monoamine depletors reserpine, tetrabenazine and p-chlorophenylalanine.
  • (9) All animals manifested an electrical focus and overt seizures, but the drug monkeys had only partial seizures whereas the placebo monkeys exhibited secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
  • (10) Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant most effective in treating complex partial and generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
  • (11) We found that a long run of high-voltage slow waves without convulsions, high-voltage irregular activity consisting of spikes and waves with intermittent myoclonus, and rapid spike and wave bursts accompanied by generalized clonic convulsions occurred sequentially.
  • (12) Kindling of the anterior neocortex (AC) was shown to produce a brief focal motor seizure, characterized by a clonic-tonic-clonic response of the forelimbs with the animal in a prone posture.
  • (13) In response to a standardized sound stimulus, GEPR-3s exhibit moderate or clonic convulsions while GEPR-9s exhibit more severe tonic extensor convulsions.
  • (14) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
  • (15) Unilateral status epilepticus developed at 15 years of age, which were characterized by alternative repetition of horizontal nystagmus to the right and clonic convulsion of the right (mainly upper) extremities every several minutes.
  • (16) A combination of absence seizure alone resulted in the excellent prognosis for both absence and myoclonic seizures, and a combination of generalized tonic-clonic seizure on awakening related to rare myoclonic seizures.
  • (17) Administration of reserpine, trifluperidol, chlorpromazine, haloperidol, spiroperidol, and thioproperazine to adult mice shortened the latency and increased the number of animals with clonic seizures induced by 1-kynurenine sulfate or its metabolite quinolinic acid.
  • (18) injection capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acid delayed the onset of picrotoxin-induced clonic convulsion in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (19) While the early clonic tonic discharges in the entorhinal cortex and the interictal like activity in area CA3 were effectively suppressed by valproic acid (VPA) the late recurrent tonic seizure discharge state was unaffected by the drug.
  • (20) Spike-and-wave afterdischarges were accompanied by the same motor pattern as stimulation, i.e., by minimal clonic seizures.

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