What's the difference between laxation and luxation?
Laxation
Definition:
(n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a history of facial edema and constipation, which have been managed with "Kanpo medicine (Chinese medicine)" and laxatives for several years.
(2) There was no significant difference between the laxatives used.
(3) IN EXAMINATION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE, SHORTENED TRANSIT TIME AND IMPROVED QUALITY WERE ACHIEVED BY USING THE FOLLOWING ITEMS OF REGIMEN: 1, No laxative; 2, nothing by mouth for 8 hours before examination; 3, 600 ml of micropulverized barium sulfate; 4, patient to lie in right decubitus position for at least one hour between films; and 5, ingestion of 200 ml of cool tap water a half hour after the start of the examination.
(4) Patients were then randomized in 2 groups, both receiving standard treatment during 2 months (low-salt diet--70 to 90 mEq of Na per day, stopping diuretics and laxatives, elastic stockings).
(5) In all patients careful bowel preparation was carried out by low residue diet, laxatives, enemas and antibiotics.
(6) Urinary data indicate that a large percentage (50%) of the drug was eliminated renally despite administration of multiple doses of activated charcoal, cholestyramine and hyperosmotic laxatives.
(7) In contrast to manometry, electromyographic methods using an endoluminal probe enable continuous colonic motor recordings over a long colonic segment for at least 24 h, and consequently studies following the course of laxative effects after oral administration, the classical therapeutic route, are possible.
(8) In contrast, the laxative potentiated the responses of the longitudinal muscle of guinea-pig isolated ileum and the rat stomach strip to the agonists, particularly PGE2.
(9) Stimulation of peristalsis or a decrease of intraluminal pressure has been described manometrically after intraluminal administration of laxatives including senna.
(10) The aim of the present investigation is therefore to study the absorption and the plasma level profile and to correlate plasma level profile and laxative effect after the administration of various dosage forms.
(11) The results suggest that azapropazone can be given together with antacids and laxatives since there is no significant interaction.
(12) From this controlled double-blind study it is not possible to draw any definite conclusions regarding the efficacy of bulk laxatives on geriatric patients.
(13) Furthermore, these data demonstrate a previously unrecognised interaction between a commonly prescribed laxative--lactulose, and atenolol and hydrochlorothiazide.
(14) In total 90% of the women received drugs, excluding laxatives, oxytocics and long-term medication, vitamins and iron.
(15) Both types of abuse were associated with the following behaviors: running away; considering hurting oneself; suicide attempts; and the use of drugs, pot (marijuana), cigarettes, and laxatives.
(16) To evaluate these two laxative regimens the following parameters were monitored: quantity and quality of the feces and of additional laxatives used for regular defecation; acceptance by the patient; costs per patient and day.
(17) In the differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal disturbances the possibility of laxative abuse is considered either too late or not at all.
(18) Nor is there any difference between the two laxatives.
(19) It is noted that children who took more pills often had fewer or no symptoms, and that laxatives increased the incidence of vomiting.
(20) After adjusting for potential confounders (including age, sex, relevant medical conditions, health status, cognitive impairment, use of alcohol, depression and use of other medications), the following medications were found to be important risk factors for multiple falls: diazepam [odds ratio (OR): 3.7, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.5-9.3], diltiazem (OR: 1.8, 95% CI: 0.8-4.1), diuretics (OR: 1.8, 95% CI: 1.2-2.8) and laxatives (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.0-4.5).
Luxation
Definition:
(n.) The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(2) In the first part of this paper the authors reported on the treatment of 938 bimalleolar luxation fractures.
(3) We report on our experiences with the application of cast immobilisation in the human position according to Fettweis in order to treat unstable luxations of the hip joint of infants.
(4) Subluxation and luxation of the ulnar nerve are normally congenital and can result in not only an irritation of the nerve but also sensory loss and motor weakness.
(5) The authors stressed that ophthalmologists should not only look for luxation of the lens in children who are suspected of having CMC syndrome.
(6) Modification of the articular relationships in the lateral femoro-tibial compartment reduces the sub-luxation and, post-operatively a lateral femoro-tibial interspace, which has not deteriorated in time, reappear.
(7) More favourable results were achieved in fractures with two or three fragments, in younger patients and in isolated shoulder injuries than with four-fragment fractures or luxated fractures, in older and in polytraumatized patients.
(8) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(9) Operations of this type have been performed in cases of traumatic cataract, subluxated and luxated lenses.
(10) The example of the untreated peri-lunar luxation and subsequent lunar necrosis illustrates the legally effective problematic nature of two causes.
(11) We also found talonecrosis after surgical correction of clubfoot, after Sudeck's disease (Sudeck-Leriche syndrome, Sudeck's atrophy or dystrophy), suppurative arthritis of the ankle joint, subtalar luxation and haematogenic osteomyelitis.
(12) 48 Gynecological Pediatric Hospital of the IMSS National Medical Center, looking for external congenital malformations including esophageal atresias, anorectal malformations and congenital hip luxations, all easily detected during a routine exploration.
(13) It therefore appears that the general factors that are able to predict the type of healing seen after root fracture are the same as those after luxation injuries, supporting the hypothesis that root fractures are another form of luxation injury, this time of only the coronal fragment.
(14) In fracture or luxation of small joints immediate reposition by careful traction and splint-fixation in neutral position ist most important.
(15) In childhood only luxations occured, in other ages no characteristic distribution of different types of damage could be found.
(16) Radiological studies demonstrated increased sclerosis of the orbital bones and decreased orbital volumes, the probable cause of the luxation and the glaucoma.
(17) The 108 cases where peritendinitis has occurred following shoulder luxations are shown divided up according to various symptoms.
(18) The luxation of the arytenoid cartilage is a very uncommon complication of endotracheal intubation.
(19) The ends of the fragments after open reposition and reduction of the proximal fragment could be fixed durably by functional stable compression osteosynthesis in 35 patients with fractures and luxation or dislocation.
(20) Corneal contusion, McCannel suture, YAG laser iridectomy, congenital luxation of the lens, and chronic over wearing of contact lenses all cause traumatic changes.