What's the difference between inebriant and intoxicant?

Inebriant


Definition:

  • (a.) Intoxicating.
  • (n.) Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (2) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
  • (3) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
  • (4) Inebriate asylums took inspiration from insane asylums and were large, public, coercive and isolated in rural areas.
  • (5) Between September 1986 and July 1988 the cases and their controls were interviewed by one and the same investigator using a questionnaire on drinking habits: quantity and type of beverage consumed, time of onset and frequency of use and whether they had manifested symptoms of inebriation or of alcohol dependence previously.
  • (6) Prohibition destroyed what public inebriate institutions existed.
  • (7) Frequency of beer, wine, and spirits drinking and inebriation by alcohol were associated with serum lipids and blood pressure in 14,667 free-living men and women aged 20 to 54 years.
  • (8) These patients cannot be identified upon presentation, however, and these data cannot support routine use of gastric emptying in the detoxification of inebriated patients.
  • (9) In multiple wound fatalities, alcohol inebriation was less common both among victims and perpetrators.
  • (10) The success of the orange revolution has promoted a kind of democratic inebriation, in which random demonstrations around the world are each sold as a new dawn of freedom in the Ukrainian tradition.
  • (11) It is noted that early research portrayed alcoholics as occupationally unstable but was based on biased samples of alcoholic psychotics and arrested public inebriates.
  • (12) We also conclude that drugs, particularly the benzodiazepines or cannabinoids, may be commonly encountered in drunken drivers, suspected of being inebriated by ethanol but no other toxicants.
  • (13) In 1971 there was a change in legislation permitting police to take public inebriates to detoxication centers.
  • (14) Because it causes immediate pain when taken into the mouth, strong mineral acid is less often swallowed than corrosive alkali, but psychotic, inebriated or determined individuals may consume lethal amounts.
  • (15) Neutrophils isolated from blood samples of healthy abstaining donors, which had been exposed to ethanol or to plasma from inebriated patients for 16 to 20 h, showed no loss of elastase activity or superoxide production.
  • (16) Most will be aware of the grotty details of the case by now, with Evans emerging as a “big night out!” type of sexual predator, who viewed inebriated young women as fair game.
  • (17) France's Europe-1 radio aired an interview with the passenger, identified only by her first name Daniele, in which she said that Depardieu appeared inebriated and announced: "I need to piss, I need to piss."
  • (18) This paper analyses two contemporaneous types of 19th-century North American inebriate institutions and attempts by their promoters to develop a public treatment system.
  • (19) This chapter recounts what is known about the international development of treatment institutions for inebriates in the century before 1940.
  • (20) The observation that those animals that drank their daily fluid in 10 min demonstrated higher peak blood-alcohol levels than the distributed animals supports the conclusion that a centrally mediated aversive state of inebriation must be present to produce a conditioned aversion.

Intoxicant


Definition:

  • (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the contrary, a plant with a THC level below 50 per cent of the cannabinoids and 0.3 per cent of the dried substance, in addition to a low level of total cannabinoids, has low intoxicant potential and can be used in industry for the production of oil and rope.
  • (2) Concomitant abuse of other intoxicants, especially alcohol, was frequently seen (48.5%).
  • (3) These results, together with those from other studies, suggest that the disordering of membrane lipids by ethanol and other intoxicant-anesthetic drugs is an important factor in the inhibition of sodium channel function by these drugs.
  • (4) The preliminary and limited study was made in an area where the metallic spray paints are used as an intoxicant by a significant percentage of the student-population.
  • (5) In the case of intoxication with Paraquat or Paracetamol, there is a negative correlation between the amount of removed intoxicant and the survival: death is likely to occur when the procedure has been very productive.
  • (6) (Venomous fishes, having poison glands and traumagenic spines, etc., are of no direct concern as oral intoxicants.
  • (7) There was no correlation between socio-economic level and use of intoxicants.
  • (8) These findings are inconsistent with any simple adrenergic mechanism in the mediation of the intoxicant effect of ethanol.
  • (9) In all patients there was a reluctance to admit that butane vapour was in use as an intoxicant immediately prior to the injury.
  • (10) Although methyl iodide is a rare form of intoxicant, its manifestations are similar to that of poisoning with the other monohalomethanes that are not uncommon.
  • (11) The prophylactic committee, PAARISA, issues informative campaigns about intoxicants, the effects of which are assessed by means of investigations such as this.
  • (12) Half of the charts were reviewed before and half were reviewed after June 1986, when Connecticut enacted PA86-345, a law changing court rules of evidence so that the analysis by a hospital of a patient's blood could be used to establish probable cause for driving while under the influence of an intoxicant.
  • (13) Variables that may alter the efficacy of charcoal therapy include the preparation and dose of charcoal used, the intoxicants involved, stomach contents, the gastrointestinal pH, concurrently administered materials, and time from toxin ingestion to charcoal administration.
  • (14) The histopathological symptoms of the various organs further demonstrated that internal injury in liver and kidney was also an important feature of the intoxicants as well as external damage, especially the particles observed around the gills.
  • (15) This procedure has been shown to achieve high clearance rates of most common intoxicants, and case reports have claimed that its application has been, on occasion, life-saving.
  • (16) Alcohol is the favoured intoxicant of European man and his descendants overseas.
  • (17) Intentional use of gasoline as an intoxicant has been frequently reported in diverse clinical literature.
  • (18) Therefore, while nimodipine may alter alcohol pharmacokinetics through its interaction(s) with the genetic characteristics of the individual animal, the ability of this calcium slow channel blocking agent to enhance the psychotropic effects of alcohol cannot be due to altered absorption or elimination of the intoxicant.
  • (19) While the intoxicant effect of alcohol depends on the quantity in the circulatory blood level, the toxic effects, particularly in the liver, depend largely on the total dose and are independent of the speed of absorption into the blood.
  • (20) When you take a Vipassana course, you agree to abide by five precepts: no killing, no stealing, no lying, no sexual misconduct and no intoxicants.

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