What's the difference between liquorice and medicine?

Liquorice


Definition:

  • (n.) See Licorice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have evaluated the effect of the synthetic liquorice derivative, carbenoxolone, on this enzyme complex.
  • (2) After a wide survey of the literature, the clinical and biological picture in four patients with chronic Liquorice ingestion and Pseudoaldosteronism syndrome is described.
  • (3) The town is also home to Svaneke Bolcher, where you can watch traditional Danish sweets being made, and Johan Bülow ’s inventive liquorice, which is now sold in shops such as Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason.
  • (4) These results show that potentially serious metabolic effects may occur in some people who eat modest amounts of liquorice daily for less than a week.
  • (5) Both tragant sulfate, a pepsin inhibitor, and deglycyrrhizinized liquorice extract proved to be without prophylactic effect.
  • (6) We have previously demonstrated, in adrenalectomized male rats, that the liquorice derivative carbenoxolone (CS) can confer mineralocorticoid (MC)-like activity upon the glucocorticoid corticosterone (B) and amplify the Na(+)-retaining actions of aldosterone (Aldo) and deoxycorticosterone (DOC).
  • (7) A case of pseudo-hyperaldosteronism secondary to prolonged daily ingestion of liquorice is reported.
  • (8) They ate liquorice in daily doses of 100 g or 200 g (equivalent to 0-7-1-4 g glycyrrhizinic acid) for one to four weeks.
  • (9) The binding of agonists (liquorice derivatives) and antagonists (spironolactones and cyproheptadine) to Type I aldosterone binding sites was evaluated in human mononuclear leucocytes and compared with data previously obtained using kidney cytosol or kidney slices from adrenalectomized rats.
  • (10) A double-blind trial of deglycyrrhizinated liquorice was performed in 47 patients with active duodenal ulcer.
  • (11) Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts were created by accident in 1899, when salesman Charlie Thompson tripped up, mixing up all the different sweets he was carrying.
  • (12) Six geographically diverse samples of liquorice root contained similar (22.2-32.3 mg g-1) glycyrrhizin contents.
  • (13) These findings seem to explain why sodium retention, hypokalaemia, and hypertension develop in subjects with congenital deficiency of 11 beta-OHSD and those in whom the enzyme has been inhibited by liquorice.
  • (14) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
  • (15) after liquorice ingestion) results in cortisol acting as a potent mineralocorticoid.
  • (16) No side effects of treatment were observed.Our study was not able to demonstrate any healing effect of the liquorice extract (Caved-S) on gastric ulcer.
  • (17) The patients were treated during two consecutive periods of four weeks each with either liquorice extract during the first period and placebo during the second or placebo during the first period and liquorice during the second.
  • (18) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
  • (19) When the activity of the enzyme is impaired (syndrome of apparent MC excess, liquorice or carbenoxolone administration), F acts as a MC and MC-hypertension with hypokalemia occurs.
  • (20) The dosage of the liquorice extract was 760 mg three times daily.

Medicine


Definition:

  • (n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
  • (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
  • (n.) A philter or love potion.
  • (n.) A physician.
  • (v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (4) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (7) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (8) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (9) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (10) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
  • (11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (12) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
  • (13) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
  • (14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
  • (15) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
  • (16) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
  • (17) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
  • (18) While medicine must respond to those who enter that house, it is the social level at which we must be the architects of change.
  • (19) Questions received by the center have covered all facets of animal medicine and management.
  • (20) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.