(n.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Faradic testing and electromyography can offer relatively early information as to the possibility of permanent facial deformity.
(2) In 4 of the 12 children studied touching or slight pressure, and also faradic stimulation of various spots of the cerebro-vascular area were invariably followed by a facial expression which was very similar to smiling.
(3) If under careful control by faradic stimulation the area to be weakened is conpletely, and the neighbouring musculature partly denervated, consistently satisfactory results can be predicted.
(4) It was found that for both a positive and negative current pulse, the Faradic resistance decreased almost hyperbolically with increasing current density.
(5) In the steady-state phase, the voltage measured is equal to the current flowing through the electrode Faradic resistance and the resistance of the electrolyte between the test and potential-sensing electrode.
(6) Treatment with thorough physiotherapy and faradic stimulation is needed.
(7) Sequential faradic stimulation testing often is a sensitive prognostic indicator of recovrey of facial nerve function, particularly if nerve excitability persists.
(8) In all cases, the Faradic resistance decreases dramatically with increasing current density.
(9) Three polydrug abusers undergoing treatment at a drug-free residential facility were administered covert sensitization as an alternative procedure to aversive counterconditioning with faradic stimulation.
(10) Although the various electrical stimulation modalities (faradic, capacitive, and inductive) are different in their physics and biochemistry, each produces a variety of biological responses in a wide range of animal models.
(11) Two detailed case histories to provide evidence for the diagnosis, the "faradic massage" treatment, patient response, and follow-up are documented.
(12) FARAD was specifically designed to provide veterinarians with the information required to determine extended withdrawal times, and thus prevent residues when drugs are used in an extra-label manner.
(13) It is concluded that a combination of a thorough clinical examination, faradism, local anaesthesia, synovial fluid analysis and radiography usually enables an accurate diagnosis to be reached.
(14) Faradic stimulation of the sphincter has not proved to be as helpful as initially hoped.
(15) In such cases a significant degree of improvement, both symptomatic and in the profile amplitude, follows treatment by maximal faradic stimulation of the pelvic muscle and perineal muscle exercises.
(16) All of the information in FARAD is currently available through three regional access centers in the United States, and direct computer access to the data may become available in the future.
(17) Lastly, a sustained atrail flutter was induced by intercaval crush and faradic atrial stimulation.
(18) The clinical trial consisted of five consecutive days of 50 minute aversion therapy sessions (faradic, rapid smoking, and quick puffing) utilizing THC-free marijuana.
(19) Faradic stimulation is useful in the evaluation of muslce function before operation.
(20) The method was used to measure the Faradic resistance of a 0.1 cm2 platinum electrode in contact with saline (p = 150 ohm-cm) at room temperature.
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?