(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.
Intoxicate
Definition:
(a.) Intoxicated.
(a.) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
(v. t.) To poison; to drug.
(v. t.) To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.
(v. t.) To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(2) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(3) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(4) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(5) Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common complaints.
(6) Dietary pretreatment of Cr(VI)-intoxicated rats with ascorbic acid or alpha-tocopherol normalized vitamin C levels in lungs but not in kidneys.
(7) The onset of the symptoms usually occurs within a few minutes after ingestion of the implicated food, and the duration of symptoms ranges from a few hours to 24 h. Antihistamines can be used effectively to treat this intoxication.
(8) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(9) The alterations might rather be attributed to unspecific disorders in the energy balance or to the effect of "stress" during intoxication.
(10) Al hepatocytes overload appeared only in nuclei and not in nuclei and not in lysosomes, contrarily to chronic intoxications.
(11) The addition of isoproterenol corrected partially or completely all bupivacaine-induced abnormalities, and decreased sinus cycle length, suggesting a potential therapeutic value in the treatment of bupivacaine intoxication.
(12) Quality of anaesthesia and risk of intoxication are competing principles in IVRA.
(13) The maximal density of [3H] 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n- propylamino)tetralin [( 3H] 8-OH-DPAT) binding (Bmax) to 5-HT1a receptors was decreased by 25 and 17% in the hippocampus during chronic ethanol intoxication and withdrawal, respectively.
(14) Thus, in cases of methyl alcohol intoxication, as in other clinical situations, hyperamylasemia, even when striking, should not be equated with pancreatitis.
(15) A 51-year-old manic woman who developed acute severe lithium intoxication with neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity during rapid abatement of manic episode was reported.
(16) The inhibition of cholinesterase and carboxylesterase activities in the diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) intoxication, and the inducibility of organophosphate (OP) detoxicating enzymes was studied in rats.
(17) Disorders of tissue respiration can be caused by two factors: inflammatory intoxication of organs and tissues and chronic oxygen insufficiency in tissues.
(18) There was no evidence of either myocardial infarction, abnormal electrolyte state, or digitalis intoxication.
(19) It is found that acute ethanol intoxication is accompanied by a decrease in the ascorbic acid content in the brain, liver and kidneys.
(20) Slight cerebral intoxication could be seen in four patients, with no correlation with possibly high lidocaine concentrations.