What's the difference between medicament and panacea?

Medicament


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All patients were unsuccessful by treated with antiaggregants, vasodilators and haemorheological medicaments.
  • (2) The patient was engaged in the magistraliter preparations of medicaments in a pharmacy.
  • (3) After formation of a cell lawn and addition of cytostatics of the arbitrarily selected medicaments vinblastin, bleomycin, cis-DDP, actinomycin D the reaction of the cells on the drugs was judged light-microscopically and electrophysiologically by measuring the transmembrane potential 24 hours after the application of medicaments.
  • (4) The main differences between the two areas lay in the pattern of employment and of local medicament prescribing.
  • (5) Apart from reference to special medicaments, it is discussed for the diverse calculi which liquid- and nutrients-intake should be recommended, respectively decreased.
  • (6) In order to predictably achieve bacteria-free root canal systems, especially in pulpless teeth, it is necessary to use intra-canal medicaments.
  • (7) Among the Chinese, garlic is also used as a form of topical medicament.
  • (8) beta,beta'-Methyl-substituted hexadecanedioic acid (MEDICA 16) shares some of the calorigenic-hypolipidemic characteristics of thyroid hormones.
  • (9) Huperzine A is an alkaloid which was first isolated from Huperzia serrata (Thumb) Trev by Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • (10) Good experiences in the therapy of chronic heart insufficiency are present above all for hydralazine and prazosin as well as increasingly also for captopril, when vasodilating and at the same time positively inotropic medicaments are disregarded.
  • (11) 90% of packed blood in this country is consumed in the form of full blood or dry plasma and only 10% in the form of desired derivatives, instead of the contrary case, since the precisely set therapy using new haemostatic medicaments is an economical imperative.
  • (12) The cardiological centers of Pordenone and Cittadella (Italy) organized by the Institute of Clinica Medica II of Padua University, have carried out a study on the "Precursors of arteriosclerosis in children", according to a WHO protocol.
  • (13) The first group took only Penfluridol, suppressing any other medicaments.
  • (14) In Malaysia, Singapore, and Trinidad, where different racial groups were under treatment, there was no clear indication that race was an important factor in explaining the differences between countries, except for cutaneous side effects in Trinidad and possibly in Malaysia.It is concluded that the differences in the frequency of side effects to thioacetazone-containing regimens probably result from variation in the closeness of supervision of patients, in the recording and interpretation of side effects, and in environmental factors including the previous use of other medicaments or exposure to sensitizing substances.
  • (15) Similarly, the additional administration of medicaments that affect lipid metabolism and of substances that lower raised uric acid levels together with a suitable diet is often inevitable.
  • (16) ACTH- and forskolin-induced lipolysis in MEDICA 16 adipocytes.
  • (17) Between November 1984 and December 1989, 318 non-cemented Porous Coated Anatomic (PCA; How-medica, Rutherford, New Jersey) total hip replacements were performed by the authors.
  • (18) A routine patch testing survey carried out on 122 patients in the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital showed that 40.1% of the patients studied gave positive patch test results to medicaments and other topical applications.
  • (19) We also found no change in the dermal infiltrate due to special medicaments.
  • (20) Twenty-six herbal preparations made from 24 medicinal herbs, categorized as antipyretics in Chinese materia medica, were tested in vitro to determine their effects upon phagocytosis of 32P-labelled Staphylococcus aureus by neutrophils isolated from bovine blood and milk.

Panacea


Definition:

  • (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
  • (n.) The herb allheal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of a reduction in cancelled cycles, patients might reduce their total costs in time and gonadotrophin used, however this treatment is not a panacea for the true low order responder.
  • (2) The present tendency to consider the psychiatrists as a panacea and, therefore, able to solve all the problems of today's man is discussed.
  • (3) While planing is not a panacea for the premalignant skin, this study suggests that it is of prophylactic value in the control of this condition in a reasonable proportion of cases.
  • (4) Although certain naivete about the likely panacea property of Cy occurred early, major adjustments in the original immunosuppressive protocol were required and included the use of rescue ATG, the measurement of Cy levels in the blood, the use of less Cy, and the perioperative avoidance of Cy.
  • (5) Almost daily a new method of weight reduction appears as a panacea for a weight conscious public.
  • (6) Although by themselves hospital systems are no panacea in dealing with the challenges facing hospitals today, many such arrangements offer more opportunities than problems in coping with the rapid changes currently facing the health care industry.
  • (7) No single type of prevention program should be viewed as a panacea, and a comprehensive system of programs will undoubtedly be needed.
  • (8) In the treatment of rotatory instability of the knee, no single approach has proved to be a panacea.
  • (9) At the outset, the concept of team care was suggested not as a panacea but perhaps as a better approach to acquiring help in areas of expertise not held by the physician.
  • (10) Cummings says they may have produced better results but "they are no panacea and the successes of a small number of brilliant organisations are not necessarily scaleable".
  • (11) Newer agents have been accompanied by a great deal of interest and hope but fail to be the panacea or "cure."
  • (12) At the same time, it is not the intent of this article to imply that the use of elastomer polymers is the panacea for all prosthodontic problems or that fundamental principles can be neglected.
  • (13) Public health can articulate this to a public sector which has been seduced by the over-extended promise of nudge, which has its place but is not a panacea and the counsel of despair that we can't plan long-term.
  • (14) While interpretation of transference is neither a panacea nor uniquely mutative with adolescents and young adults, the authors believe it has an important role to play in expressive psychotherapy if used judiciously and with foresight.
  • (15) This program has been in not, however, been a panacea for all residents.
  • (16) CBT and exercise have their disciples, but clearly aren’t panaceas.
  • (17) With patience and careful evaluation,,the correct place for the procedure will be found and, though it is not quite the panacea once claimed for patients with coronary artery disease, aortocoronary bypass surgery will remain an important and valuable therapeutic tool, perhaps the most significant development in cardiovascular treatment of the past decade.
  • (18) Clearly, with today's technology, IVF-ET is not a panacea of infertility, but in selected cases it may provide a child where other forms of therapy have failed.
  • (19) We will have to be much more creative in aligning resources across these boundaries as the Barker Commission recommended but integration alone is not a panacea.” Osborne : “The purse will never be as big as the aspiration, but I think the best protection for the sector lies in us all working together to recognise and support what is an outstanding workforce.
  • (20) In particular, I would like to encourage a more widespread and explicit recognition of the special merits of the mobile barrier type of mechanism (Mitchell, 1957, 1987), not as a panacea, but to explain the translocation of the characteristically hydrophilic and somewhat bulky solutes that are the main substrates of solute porters and of some osmoenzymes in bacterial membranes.

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