What's the difference between intoxicating and toxicomania?

Intoxicating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intoxicate
  • (a.) Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

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.

Toxicomania


Definition:

  • (n.) Toxiphobia.
  • (n.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Use and abuse of psychotropic drugs start with history, but toxicomania starts much later, with the discovery of morphine, in early XIXth.
  • (2) Adolescents from unhappy and alcoholic families were found to be most prone to the toxicomania type in question.
  • (3) The characteristics of those under study-connected with toxicomania, psychopathy and recidivism-are also greatly responsible for extensive use of medical services during detention.
  • (4) Besides, an "altered background" is characteristic of drug addicts and toxicomania patients.
  • (5) The authors analyse current aspects of toxicomania in young persons.
  • (6) Should the analyst participate to investigations organised in order to disclose a toxicomania in a working place?
  • (7) Drug addiction and toxicomania were established in 6% of subjects.
  • (8) The development then proceeds either via habitual ethylism or via alcoholic toxicomania.
  • (9) Three points need stressing: 1) HIV is a new viral cause of autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura, the first report of which dates from 1985; 2) this bleeding diathesis may be seen more often in normal anaesthetic practice because of the frequent association of intravenous toxicomania with anti-HIV antibodies and thrombocytopaenia.
  • (10) It can be concluded that it is useful to study the biochemical parameters of serum free-radical processes and to employ the findings in the therapy of inhalation toxicomanias.
  • (11) Toxicomania and doping give rise to an increasing number of drug measurements in the body fluids.
  • (12) It is emphasized that tobacco dependence does not refer to toxicomania or narcomania in terms of its clinical manifestations, occupying an intermediate place in psychopathology, namely between mental health, one the one hand, and borderline neuropsychic disorders, on the other one.
  • (13) There was general agreement that in 1985 the greatest problem in psychiatry will be psychosomatic disorders, neuroses and toxicomania, in that order.
  • (14) The discovered alterations make it possible to appraise the influence of toxic substances and the degree of brain atrophy, which attests to the diagnostic value of computerized tomography in patients with toxicomanias.
  • (15) The experiments have proved some male noninbred white rats to of inclined to toxicomania development.
  • (16) It is recommended that patients with mental diseases, narcomania and toxicomania should undergo a prophylactic fluorographic screening twice a year.
  • (17) Fatal outcomes were most common in tuberculosis patients with concurrent drug addiction and toxicomania.
  • (18) Biologically conditioned risk factors conducive to drug addiction and toxicomania should be investigated.
  • (19) The paper deals with drug abuse in minors who are on the records of the regional surgery for toxicomania in Ostrava-Poruba.

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