What's the difference between helminthic and medicine?
Helminthic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.
(n.) A vermifuge; an anthelmintic.
Example Sentences:
(1) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(2) All four significantly affected helminth motor activity and were active at 200 and 150 micrograms ml-1, and three of the four were active at 100 and 50 micrograms ml-1.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) The presence of helminthic invasion of the liver--opisthordiasis resulted in hepatitis, pancreatitis that would not respond to therapy in patients with ALMS.
(5) Halogenated anthelmintics were not metabolized to GSH conjugates in the helminths studied and did not inhibit GSH-S-aryltransferase activity towards chlorodinitrobenzene.
(6) The possibility that the activities observed may contribute to the elimination of peroxide in the helminth system is considered.
(7) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
(8) Much more fundamental information on helminth-bovine interactions, on helminth antigens, and on cattle antibody systems must be developed before progress on control of cattle helminths by vaccination can be meaningful.
(9) The predominant helminth was Ancylostoma duodenale, with the peak prevalence (65.2%) in patients older than 18 years, followed by Ascaris lumbricoides and Strongyloides stercoralis.
(10) Recently we described a mathematical model of the role of acquired immunity in host-helminth interactions.
(11) In addition, a number of antiparasitic agents have been shown to exert their actions through a free radical metabolism: nitro compounds used against trypanosomatids, anaerobic protozoa and helminths; crystal violet used in blood banks to prevent blood transmission of Chagas' disease; the antimalarial primaquine, chloroquinine, and quinhasou; and quinones active in vitro and in vivo against different parasites.
(12) Results of the infection of golden hamsters with different dozes of cercariae have shown that with the increase of dozes of infectious material the infection rate of helminths rises during the experimental intestinal schistosomiasis only to a definite level, which is attained by the injection of cercariae into the portal vein in dozes lower than those used for subcutaneous infection.
(13) Total parasitic helminth burdens, which were never large, were determined in order to define their seasonal incidence.
(14) Out of a total of 140 male and 114 female dogs sampled for gastro-intestinal helminth ova, 122 males (87.14%) and 101 females (88.59%) respectively were infested.
(15) Cuban mosquitoes are an important factor in the transmission of both viral and protozoal and helminthic diseases.
(16) A total of 91 free-ranging black bears (Ursus americanus) from the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta was examined for helminths.
(17) Levamisole and Banminth affected the motility of the helminth larvae with subsequent death after 24h.
(18) A significant association was also found between distance from a river and prevalence of S. haematobium (r = 0.94) and S. mansoni (r = 0.95) (P less than 0.01), but not with the other helminth infections.
(19) In addition to the known human pathogenic helminths H. nana and H. diminuta, localized foci of hookworms (Ancylostoma spp.)
(20) The observation, in parasitic protozoa and helminths, that selfing or non-obligatory mating is a common feature suggests that these processes may be strategies to overcome the cost of meiosis.
Medicine
Definition:
(n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
(n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
(n.) A philter or love potion.
(n.) A physician.
(v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) 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.
(5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(7) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(8) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(9) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(10) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
(11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(12) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
(13) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
(14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(15) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(16) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(17) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
(18) While medicine must respond to those who enter that house, it is the social level at which we must be the architects of change.
(19) Questions received by the center have covered all facets of animal medicine and management.
(20) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.