What's the difference between medical and nostrum?

Medical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.
  • (a.) Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (2) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (3) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (4) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (5) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (6) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (8) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
  • (9) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
  • (10) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (12) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (13) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (14) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (15) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
  • (16) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (17) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (18) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (19) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
  • (20) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".

Nostrum


Definition:

  • (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
  • (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They claim the demand for smuggling trips will continue despite the cancellation of Mare Nostrum, since refugees have little chance of legal resettlement in countries such as Britain, which has settled only 90 Syrian refugees .
  • (2) We need a robust search and rescue operation in the Central Mediterranean, not only a border patrol.” Amnesty International has also called for an EU-wide mission with at least the same mandate and resources as Mare Nostrum , which saved more than 170,000 lives.
  • (3) Italian coastguard officials said in May that the EU needed to make saving lives a priority, after the Mare Nostrum search and rescue programme ended in November 2014.
  • (4) An Italian navy operation, Mare Nostrum, has saved the lives of 150,000 migrants and refugees so far this year but despite their best efforts more than 3,000 have died.
  • (5) In fact, what happened was that the Italians ditched their relatively successful Mare Nostrum patrols, arguing they were being left to foot the bill for the rest of Europe.
  • (6) Last autumn, the EU opted not to create a like-for-like replacement for Operation Mare Nostrum , a huge Italian-run search-and-rescue operation that saved up to 100,000 lives in the Mediterranean last year.
  • (7) Smugglers say the demand for their service remains high, despite the discontinuation last autumn of Italian search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean called Mare Nostrum.
  • (8) It replaced, at a fraction of the cost, a much more ambitious and effective Italian navy operation, Mare Nostrum, last year.
  • (9) One such nostrum was Radithor, a popular and expensive mixture of radium 226 and radium 228 in distilled water.
  • (10) Last year, following the deaths of more than 360 people off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Rome government committed almost 1,000 naval and other personnel to a more elaborate search and rescue effort under the code name of Operation Mare Nostrum.
  • (11) May told the Commons the meeting had agreed “the prompt withdrawal of the Mare Nostrum operation … and for all member states to comply fully with their obligations under EU migration and asylum [policies].” Admiral Filippo Maria Foffi, the commander in charge of the Italian naval squadron involved in Mare Nostrum, is expected to spell out on Tuesday the impact of its cancellation.
  • (12) He also challenged another government nostrum by saying the OBR did not accept government claims that public sector pensions as currently paid were unsustainable.
  • (13) Italy cancelled it in October, and in its place the EU runs a smaller border patrol service, amid claims that Mare Nostrum’s success was encouraging more migrants to risk death at sea.
  • (14) The Italian-funded Mare Nostrum exercise, mobilised after 300 refugees drowned off Lampedusa a year ago , has saved thousands of lives.
  • (15) And then there’s the increasing desire of citizens to speak up and to reason publicly, also a factor in Abbott’s Apocalypse, and not reducible to simplistic nostrums about the “Twitterati”.
  • (16) They defend the substitution of the smaller EU-backed inshore exercise Triton for Mare Nostrum, the Italian search-and-rescue exercise, in terms not of humanity but pragmatism.
  • (17) But civilian coastguard patrols are struggling to fill the void left by the navy frigates that led operations for Mare Nostrum, said Flavio Di Giacomo, IOM’s spokesman in Italy .
  • (18) In Tripoli on Saturday, a smuggler told the Guardian he was not aware of Mare Nostrum in the first place, nor knew that it had finished.
  • (19) A mechanism such as Mare Nostrum should be put in place, if possible under European consultation.
  • (20) In place of the rule-of-thumb nostrums of the treasury, a planning staff had been established, and economic experts were beginning to be introduced into Whitehall.