What's the difference between hepar and homeopathy?
Hepar
Definition:
(n.) Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).
(n.) Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient developed hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and one subject developed pulmonary fibrosis, both presumably attributable to treatment with mitomycin C. Another patient died of hepatic failure (hepar lobatum).
(2) The safety of mesothelial integument in hepar capsula has not been damaged.
(3) The conclusions of the two stages are ordered by the amount of evidence computed by HEPAR.
(4) Initial results showed comparable performance of hirudinized saline and heparized saline, both of which were better than saline, for preventing thrombosis.
(5) Besides the uniform daily energy intake of 750 ml of 40% invert sugar and 250 ml of 20% Lipofundin, the daily amino acid infusion of group I (n = 13) was only 500 ml EAS pfrimmer (34.5 g), of group II (n = 10) 250 ml EAS pfrimmer and 250 ml of 7.5% Intrafusin, and of group III (n = 16) 250 ml EAS pfrimmer and 350 ml Aminofusin Hepar (33.1 g).
(6) In three of these patients, all of whom had taken an overdose of paracetamol, the acidosis was severe, present before the onset of clinical heparic failure, and associated with hypoglycaemiaand mild hypotension.
(7) HEPAR is an expert system which can be used as a supportive tool in the diagnosis of disorders of the liver and biliary tract.
(8) This is the first clinico-pathological report of hepar lobatum carcinomatosum (HLC), the rarest form of metastatic liver disease.
(9) The possibility of hepar resection by means of Soviet-made ultrasound device URSK-7N-18 was investigated in experiment on 13 mongrel dogs.
(10) An instance of hepar lobatum of unusual etiology is described.
(11) There were three groups of five dogs each: Group I had no anticoagulants; Group II received systemic heparization; Group III perfusions utilized heparin-bonded circuits.
(12) The representation language employed in HEPAR consists of production rules with object-attribute-value triples.
(13) In this paper the structure, development process and approach followed in the validation of the HEPAR system are described.
(14) The scarring subdivided the liver into irregular areas resulting in the characteristic gross appearance of hepar lobatum.
(15) The possibilities of application of the "Hepar" computer system in medical didactics are discussed.
(16) The HEPAR system is a medical expert system intended as a supportive tool for the diagnosis of disorders of the liver and biliary tract.
(17) Light and heavy petrols influence as well, as that of trichloroethylene on morphological changes in the hepar and lungs of gravid Wistar females was investigated.
(18) During a 3-day infusion period a so-called liver solution (Aminofusin hepar) was given to one group of animals, a normal solution (Infesol) to a second group, and only an electrolyte infusion solution under oral nutrition ad libitum to a third one.
(19) Hepar lobatum is now a rarity in developed countries.
(20) It was found that inhalation of petrols and trichloroethylene in small concentrations caused degenerative changes in the hepar parenchyma, while there were no changes in the lungs.
Homeopathy
Definition:
(n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Actual contacts with alternative practitioners are mostly limited to those practicing acupuncture, homeopathy and manipulative medicine with a regular medical or paramedical education.
(2) In this review the author describes the main principles of homeopathy, the stages of its development, methods of approach to the treatment of diseases of the internal organs.
(3) To me, homeopathy wasn’t as strange as it would be to many other people because, in a way, I was brought up on homeopathy – our family doctor was a homeopath,” he says.
(4) Until now there is no proven mechanism for the mode of action of homeopathy.
(5) Homeopathy has been disputed from the early beginning.
(6) 80% offered minor operations, one-third manipulations, 10% homeopathy, 6% hypnosis and 5% acupuncture.
(7) I recently asked the General Medical Council about homeopathy.
(8) This essay deals with the current credo of scholastic medicine, the definition of alternative health care and with the methods of phytotherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture.
(9) Household income: £20,000 a year (£12,000 from homeopathy, £8,000 from nursing).
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thompson had been studying homeopathy at college with the hope of a career in natural medicine.
(11) Leading scientists have also questioned Hunt's suitability to be responsible for the NHS because he endorses homeopathy, which many scientists believe has no value and is a waste of NHS funds.
(12) Among unaccustomed treatments for low back pain homeopathy matter given by injection has been joined with usual care.
(13) Accordingly, homeopathy is presently an unacceptable system with no physical basis, supported by inexplicable observations and a mixture of magic effects.
(14) Data concerning acupuncture, balneotherapy, dietary measures, enzymic therapy, Seatone, homeopathy, manual therapy and fever few were found.
(15) The results range from apathy to the sort of pitched battles raging in homeopathy .
(16) The following methods are discussed in detail: regulation thermography, Lüscher's test, homeopathy, homeopathy autoblood therapy, nosoden therapy, acupuncture, magnetic field therapy, ozone therapy, Mora therapy, lymph drainage, management of symbiosis, and anthroposophical medicine.
(17) Thompson had been studying homeopathy at college with the hope of a career in natural medicine.
(18) The conclusion emerges that the literature available does not make it possible to pass a verdict on the question whether homeopathy and isopathy are scientifically justified or not.
(19) The most universally accepted requirements which scientific research has to comply with having been enumerated and explained, a number of experimental studies in the fields of homeopathy and isopathy are put to the test of these requirements.
(20) In the intervening period, HRH has discovered the consolations of organic farming, homeopathy and a happy marriage.