(v. t.) To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.
(v. t.) To warble; to sing as if gargling
(n.) A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oropharyngeal topical anesthesia with viscous lidocaine (25 ml of 2% as a "mouthwash and gargle" 10 min before laryngoscopy) attenuated the pressor but not heart rate (HR) response during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation.
(2) The gargle method was compared to a swab method and proved to be superior.
(3) As he breathed, he made screeching sounds and low-pitched gargles.
(4) Directigen FLU-A was 90% sensitive (95% confidence interval, 56 to 99.7%) with nasopharyngeal washes but only 39% sensitive (95% confidence interval, 17 to 64%) with pharyngeal gargles (P = 0.018) when used with samples containing similar amounts of infectious virus (50% tissue culture infective dose, 1.0 to 4.5).
(5) Twenty patients (76.9%) frequently suffered from stomatitis despite the gargling.
(6) The drug has been administered as a gargle or in applications 3-4 min 4-5 times daily for 10-12 days.
(7) Lidocaine solution (4 percent) was used for gargling, for spraying the palate and oropharynx with an atomizer, and for nebulization with an air-powered nebulizer (mean total dose, 1,682 mg) and 2 percent lidocaine (Xylocaine) jelly for anesthetizing nasal passages.
(8) When I have a sore throat they prefer that I have a salt gargle than a Strepsil.
(9) The increased rate of Gram-negative bacillary isolation from gargle specimens during CMV infections was not a function of type of immunosuppressive agents used, rejection episodes, antibiotic administration, concomitant hepatitis B, Epstein-Barr (EBV) virus, or herpes simplex virus infections, or alterations in salivary fibronectin concentrations.
(10) Group A received 39 ml of viscous lidocaine gargle (2%) diluted with 15 ml of tap water.
(11) Quantitative cultures of saline gargles showed pharyngeal Gram-negative bacilli to be significantly (P less than .05) more prevalent among alcoholics (35%) and diabetics (36%) but not epileptics (17%) or addicts (20%) than controls (18%).
(12) On one occasion in both studies subjects used a gargling procedure to remove drug which had been deposited in the mouth and oropharynx.
(13) Nasopharyngeal washes and pharyngeal gargles were used to determine the effectiveness of the assay as applied to different types of routinely collected clinical samples.
(14) And bizarrely so, given the time it takes to queue in coffee shops while the machine endlessly hisses and gargles for each customer.
(15) Gargling and expectorating a solution containing phenol had a significantly greater anesthetic effect on the mucous membranes of the oropharynx than spraying and swallowing, which, in turn, had a greater effect than drinking the solution.
(16) Since therapeutic aerosols delivered by metered dose inhaler (MDI) are preferentially deposited in the mouth and pharynx, we wished to determine whether mouth rinsing and gargling with water might reduce the magnitude of such side effects by partially removing oral and pharyngeal drug residues.
(17) In an attempt to associate oropharyngeal excretion of Epstein-Barr (EB) virus with lymphoproliferative disorders other than infectious mononucleosis, we tested throat gargles collected from adult subjects for the EB virus.
(18) Therefore, in the second year they were instructed to use the gargle solution at a higher concentration (30-fold dilution).
(19) Here are some of Philip’s famous phrases: “What do you gargle with, pebbles?” (speaking to the singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance) “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969) “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure.
(20) From November 1987 to October 1990, we investigated the efficacy of povidine iodine gargle solution (Isodine Gargle) for preventing stomatitis in 26 patients (19 males and 7 females; mean age 53.2 years) with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
Rinse
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
(v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.
(n.) The act of rinsing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
(3) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(4) The ASI said the UK should be prepared to adapt its standards, pointing to an assessment by the European Food Safety Authority that the chemical rinses, including chlorine dioxide, were safe to eat.
(5) Six individuals wore the appliances while rinsing daily with a neutral 0.2% NaF solution for 4 wk.
(6) This also has automatic rinsing, cleaning and descaling programmes.
(7) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
(8) Gingival bleeding decreased by 26% in both scaled and unscaled sites following CHX (0.12%) rinses and by 40% at both types of sites following CHX (0.06%) irrigation.
(9) The source of these nitrates was probably water incompletely removed after washing and rinsing of collector containers.
(10) Allopurinol mouth wash was prepared for patients to rinse their mouth with the solution 4-5 times daily before and after treatment with anti-cancer drugs.
(11) The swab method (according to the guide-lines of the DGHM) occasionally resulted in the finding "adequate efficacy" already if 10(4) to 10(5) surviving germs were demonstrable by the rinsing method.
(12) The results of this study suggest that using PLAX as prebrushing rinse is the same as using a placebo.
(13) After rinsing with a fluoride solution, the amounts of fluoride taken up by small pieces of dentine placed strategically about the mouth varied considerably from site to site in the oral cavity.
(14) During continuing infusion, following 210 min of iodoinsulin delivery, intact conceptuses (embryo, amnion, and yolk sac), and portions of adjacent decidua, liver, and spleen were excised, rinsed, and frozen in liquid N2 within 2 min.
(15) One hundred and three adults completed a double-blind, 6-month controlled study to assess the effects of rinsing with Plax (Oral Care Division of Pfizer Inc., New York, NY) before brushing on plaque, gingivitis and calculus.
(16) The results showed a significant decrease in salivary mutants streptococci after rinsing periods with XYLIHEX and CHX when compared with F (p less than 0.001).
(17) From a zero baseline, plaque regrowth at day 5 was significantly reduced by chlorhexidine compared to peroxyborate; and, in turn, significantly reduced by peroxyborate compared to the other rinses.
(18) After a rinse in 1% acetic acid, the sections were silver enhanced.
(19) Compared to placebo at 6 months, the group rinsing with 0.12% chlorhexidine had significantly less gingivitis (31% reduction), gingival bleeding (39% reduction), and plaque (49% reduction) and was significantly better than any of the other treatment groups (P less than 0.05).
(20) Taste detection thresholds for sodium chloride, sucrose, citric acid and quinine sulfate were determined with the Henkin three drop forced-choice method at stimulus volumes 0.05 ml, 0.50 ml, and 0.90 ml, with and without water rinses.