What's the difference between liniment and unguent?

Liniment


Definition:

  • (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intravesical instillations of 10% dibunol liniment were used for the treatment of 132 patients with bladder tumors.
  • (2) The most common dosage forms were creams, liniments and mixtures.
  • (3) Furthermore, the intraindividual variation of local capillary blood flow and vasodilatation was imitated by a rubefacient liniment (Forapin) applied to the three sites.
  • (4) The patient had a history of liniment ingestion in childhood plus a long history of dysphagia and substernal pain.
  • (5) In this study massage is defined as small circular movements with the fingertips using liniment.
  • (6) This combination has been effectively treated with oral undevit, vitamin B15, Quater's mixture, elenium, and external 2% alcohol solution of salicylic acid, fukorcin, 10% streptocide liniment, lorinden C, ftorocort, cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen, electrocoagulation.
  • (7) Stale layers of sweat were sweetened by liniment oil and disinfectant.
  • (8) The antiulcer effect of two medicinal forms (oil solution, liniment) of dibunol in rats with different models of the stomach and duodenum ulcers was studied.
  • (9) A new peplomycin (PEP) preparation was employed as an emulsion form in hydroxypropylcellulosum (HPC), which is familiar to have a liniment effect with a strong affinity to mucosa of the organ, in the management of 6 patients with bladder tumors.
  • (10) Analysis of the treatment results in 85 patients with occupational skin diseases, working at the Kineskop industrial amalgamation in Lvov, evidences that application of a liniment containing riboxin (10%) and dimexide (40-50%) results in a marked clinical effect and normalization of impaired protective-barrier function of the skin.
  • (11) Local dibunol liniment has been effective in therapy of the mucosal erosions.
  • (12) These include iatrogenic skin diseases caused by external medicine; skin tumors caused by methylrosaniline chloride (Pyoktanin); atrophy of the skin due to steroidal liniments; nevus and tumor diseases, such as nevoxanthoendothelioma and Letterer-Siwe disease.
  • (13) An elderly woman developed lipoid pneumonia due to the inhalation of mist from a spray lubricant that she was using as a liniment for sore back and neck muscles.
  • (14) The persons with scabies were treated with crotamiton liniment.
  • (15) The liniment used is a topical analgesic and anti-inflammatory preparation containing two active constituents, 3-phenylpropylsalicylate and ethyl-5-methoxysalicylate, in solution in isobutyl decanoate.

Unguent


Definition:

  • (n.) A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is found that local applications of the unguent with soluble collagen, but not solution of the collagen, stimulate healing of erosions and full-thickness excision wounds in the rat skin.
  • (2) The treatment recommended in a 5-percent suspension or unguent of pimaricin (natamycin).
  • (3) Underneath the Great Hall was once an “elaboratory”, where apothecaries concocted their unguents, vomit cakes and elixirs.
  • (4) From the viewpoint of the technics of application and considering the cost too, the unguent is more favourable.
  • (5) He survived on the pittance he earned from working as a traditional "African doctor" but his unguents could not protect his daughter from the hidden hunger that threatens the lives of five million people in Malawi .