(n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
(n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
(v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
(v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
(v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
(v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(4) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(5) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(6) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(7) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(8) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(9) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(10) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(11) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(12) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(13) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(14) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(15) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(16) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(17) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(18) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
(19) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(20) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
Puke
Definition:
(v. i.) To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
(v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
(n.) A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
(a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This episode opens outside South Park’s election night viewing party, where we see residents stumbling drunkenly outside and puking on the sidewalk.
(2) It was a sort of beautifully human moment shared by two of the most powerful men in the world, but on the other hand, the president’s puke definitely got on Miyazawa’s lap.
(3) He smiles, then chats to environmental campaigners carrying banners against political corruption, one of which features a picture of Jón Sigurdsson with a wordplay on his most famous slogan, changing "We all protest" to "We all puke".
(4) In the early months of 2004, a Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg got so drunk, he tripped over a coiled snake of cables in his dorm room, smashed through his ground floor window and ended up face down in the wet grass, whereupon the girl he had admired came round the corner, arms linked with her friends, who, all three, had to step over the fallen norm-core future billionaire before he puked on himself.
(5) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
(6) This week Charlie managed to convince himself he was coming down with the winter vomiting bug three times despite a total lack of symptoms: "Apparently, it comes on so fast the first sign you've got it is the sight of puke shooting unexpectedly from your own mouth, followed almost immediately by an involuntary trouser-soiling evacuation of the bowels."
(7) You wanted to cut off your hair, refused to wear dresses and made puking faces if someone offered you something pink.
(8) Lady Gaga Lady Gaga’s SXSW show in March was accused of ignoring the hits in favour of visual fireworks, but at the end of the day you still got to watch her being roasted on a spit while a “ vomit artist ” puked all over the stage, and you certainly don’t get that with Two Door Cinema Club.
(9) If you are puking every weekend, it’s your body’s way of telling you to pull yourself together.
(10) Come on, we must have one toppler... 8.44pm BST Beca speaks for us all as she expresses her desire to puke with the discomfort.
(11) "We only toured once [and] he drank a lot and occasionally there were some sketchy antics, like the time he puked off the balcony at the party the record company threw for us – an interior balcony, if I remember.
(12) They said the venue had hosted loads of Leningrad concerts before and at the end of the night, there was total carnage, with everything covered in rubbish and puke, but at our concert everyone was behaving like they were at the philharmonic.
(13) There are gross-out, American-style gags about erections, spots and puke, and very British characters who think they're far cooler, smarter, and better-looking than they really are.
(14) Plunkett, a director on the precious metals desk, sent an email on the evening of 27 June 2012 telling colleagues that he was hoping for a "mini-puke to 1558", a mini-puke referring to a fall in the gold price.
(15) Keane – who later admitted he had been “puking up all afternoon” – sealed the win, and his hat-trick, with his second spot kick of the night on 80 minutes, before the talented Sebastian Lletget wrapped things up just before the end.
(16) The laugh-a-minute pro-celebrity puking bug known by the streetname "norovirus" continues to squirm its way through the population, effortlessly transforming ordinarily carefree human beings into spluttering, sulphurous geysers of molten waste.
(17) Langham had a terrible time at boarding school; he earned himself the nickname Puke because of his habit of anxiety-induced vomiting.
(18) She always regales with stories such as the time she went to see the Spice Girls at the 02 and puked out of the car window all the way home.
(19) I wanted to puke and just get here," Hopper told a local newspaper, the Bakersfield Californian.
(20) Track titles and artist names played up the expulsive and repulsive aspect of the new style (Stenchman's discography includes Puking Over and The Taste of Vomit ) and fans enthused about "filthstep".