What's the difference between homatropine and medication?
Homatropine
Definition:
(n.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our findings indicate that endothelial receptors are characterised by a high affinity for scopolamine, which possesses a scopine base, and that muscle binding sites have a high affinity for antagonists possessing a tropine base (atropine, homatropine).
(2) The administration of homatropine eye-drops precipitated several episodes of delirium in a 69-year-old woman.
(3) The 35-year-old man, demonstrating auricular chondritis, arthritis, nasal cartilage involvement, episcleritis and respiratory tract chondritis, was admitted to the hospital and treated with 60 mg of prednisone daily, prednisolone acetate 1% ophthalmic drops every waking hour and homatropine hydrobromide 5% ophthalmic drops twice daily.
(4) Of importance may be the fact that in majority of patients, the PAW symptoms decreased and well-being increased parallel with the fall in prolactin levels (p less than or equal to 0.01): this has usually been noted at 60 minutes after the first homatropine dosing and might indicate a possible involvement of, at least, the cholinergic-serotonergic pathways.
(5) Its use in separating optical isomers of dl-scopolamine, dl-hyoscyamine, dl-homatropine, and dl-cocaine is discussed.
(6) Administration of topical homatropine (two 0.5% drops were given twice being spaced 15 minutes apart), unlike that of placebo had, within 60 minutes, caused a significant and then usually maintained clinical improvement, as evidenced by decreases of intensity of the PAW symptoms (irritability, depressed mood, anxiety, somatic and vegetative disorders (p less than or equal to 0.01), as well as a considerable reduction of the self-rated "desire for drink" phenomenon (less than or equal to 0.01).
(7) The cross-reactivities with dihydromorphinone, dihydrocodeinone, naloxone, naltrexone, dextromethorphan and homatropine varied from clone to clone.
(8) The glaucoma in the 73-year-old patient was relieved with topical instillation of timolol 0.5%, homatropine 5%, and systemic administration of acetazolamide.
(9) To stabilize weak and medium-severity progressive myopia, instillations of cycloplegics (homatropin or tropicamid) and of hypotensive agents (clofelin or thymolol) were administered into the conjunctival cavity once a day (at bedtime).
(10) In 11 healthy subjects, the pupillary response to transcutaneous electrical stimulation was evaluated during iris parasympathetic blockade induced by homatropine eyedrops.
(11) Furthermore, the highest concentration tested was unable to reduce the homatropine-induced mydriasis.
(12) Little or no changes in neutrophil locomotion were seen with atropine, homatropine, scopolamine or tropicamide when tested at the same concentration range.
(13) Convulsions appeared only after ICV injections of atropine and homatropine.
(14) The effect on behavior of eight anticholinergic agents: atropine, scopolamine, trihexyphenidyl, biperiden, homatropine, eucatropine, hexocyclium and propantheline, injected into the cerebral ventricle (ICV) of the cat was investigated and compared.
(15) The mydriatic phase disappeared after thymoxamine application, while homatropine pre-treatment prevented occurrence of the miotic phase.
(16) The weakening of the function of the ciliary muscle of one eye by instillation of, for example Homatropin leads to an important increase of the contralateral and diminution of the ipsilateral consensual accommodation.
(17) Homatropine has a measurable deepening effect on the anterior chamber, due to axial flattening of the lens because of cycloplegia, with a range of 0.33 to 0.36 mm.
(18) Post-homatropine responses observed so far seem to be initiated by the reflexory-induced haemodynamic and thermoregulatory changes with a transient but still significant fall in the systolic blood pressure, pulse rate, and oral temperature.
(19) A comparative study of the cycloplegic effect of 1% cyclopentolate and atropine or homatropine was done by means of Lindner's method of retinoscopy.
(20) We compared the cycloplegic effects of cyclopentolate, homatropine and atropine by the retinoscopy findings and residual accommodation left following their use in the same individual.
Medication
Definition:
() The act or process of medicating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(3) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(4) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(5) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(6) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
(9) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(10) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(12) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(13) 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.
(14) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(15) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(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) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(18) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(19) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
(20) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".