What's the difference between medicate and pill?

Medicate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.
  • (v. t.) To treat with medicine.

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".

Pill


Definition:

  • (n.) The peel or skin.
  • (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.
  • (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
  • (v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
  • (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
  • (n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
  • (2) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
  • (3) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (4) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
  • (5) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
  • (6) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
  • (7) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
  • (8) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
  • (9) Among women using the pill for 8 years, the relative risk was 2.6 (p0.0001).
  • (10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
  • (11) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
  • (12) The amino acid pool in leukocytes was found to be smaller in those patients taking the "pill".
  • (13) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
  • (14) 88% of the women in the recent study had used the pill at some point and 45% had used an IUD--methods that were not available to women in the 1940s.
  • (15) The pill group gave birth on an average of 5.79 days after the date forecast by Naegele's rule and .15 days before the date calculated from the ultrasound examination.
  • (16) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
  • (17) The estrogen potencies of 9 oral contraceptive pills, Enovid-E, Enovid-5, Ovulen, Demulen, Norinyl+80, Norinyl+50, Ovral, Norlestrin 1 mg. and Norlestrin 2.5 mg., were determined by bioassay.
  • (18) Motor behavior of substitutes was assessed following dry swallows and following several stimuli: intraluminar injection of 30 ml of water or 0.1N hydrochloric acid and swallowing pills.
  • (19) Presumably the competitive binding of iron by ascorbic acid in the vitamin pill allowed uninhibited absorption of the iron.
  • (20) Ten women were taking an oral contraceptive containing 50 mug oestrogen and progestogen ("combined pill"), one patient took a progestogen-only contraceptive and 14 served as controls.

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