(n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, the same concentration of isopropanol produced narcosis in the dams, retarded body-weight gain and reduced the feed intake.
(2) The time of ethanol-induced narcosis and the extent of ethanol-induced hypothermia were not affected.
(3) The changes attributable to premedication and narcosis were characterized by a primary fibrinolysis which was accompanied by a slight hypercoagulability.
(4) If no progress can be achieved, narcosis mobilization and brisement modéré should be done.
(5) Monomodal neurons had more often simple RF and invariance of OT to narcosis.
(6) Narcosis (pentobarbital) inhibited markedly the resting and stimulated enzyme secretion.
(7) The indices of renal functionality are studied during the course of ether anesthesia in order to ascertain the behaviour of the kidney subjected to narcosis with this drug.
(8) In this particular case, the narcosis has permitted the uncovering of delusions and consequently the administration of the appropriate treatment.
(9) The concept of a critical-volume fraction of anesthetic being necessary for narcosis was discussed in most detail by Mullins.
(10) The antagonism of narcosis or sedation was evident against other barbiturates, diazepam, chlorpromazine, and reserpine, but not against morphine.
(11) Pressor responses were usually obtained in conscious cats, and also narcosis produced reversal effect on rare occasions.
(12) In addition, H2-receptor blocking agents such as cimetidine, ranitidine and famotidine clearly antagonized Hi-induced prolongation of thiopental narcosis, while pyrilamine and chlorpheniramine had no effect.
(13) For acute narcosis (50% mortality) the toxicant level in the hydrophobic (lipid) phase of an exposed organism is, as a first approximation, constant at approximately 50 mmol l-1 of lipid.
(14) In conclusion, these studies suggest that THF, like other commonly used organic solvents, causes narcosis in rats and mice.
(15) The arterial blood gases and pH remained at the predive control level in group 2 rats, whereas serum corticosterone concentration fell to 60% during compression (P less than 0.01), possibly due to N2 narcosis, but increased gradually toward 80% of C value during the pressure exposure.
(16) Nitrous oxide does not appear to benefit emotional or physiological adaptation to nitrogen narcosis associated with breathing hyperbaric air, and may even impair emotional adaptation, at least under these experimental conditions.
(17) Employment of this drug to prevent bronchospastic crises in 10 asthmatic patients subjected to narcosis is reported.
(18) Under nembutal narcosis on cats, intracellular electrophysiological studies have been made of common properties and differences in the neuronal organization of the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and intrinsic pontine nuclei.
(19) The indications of the method include subdiaphragmatic surgery, interventions on more than one anatomical region, surgery in aging patients, patients with full stomach, and those with anaesthetic and surgical risk, as well as socioeconomic factors which may prevent application of a differentiated and safe narcosis.
(20) Opposing this, the application of neurotensin appears to potentiate ethanol narcosis.
Sedation
Definition:
(n.) The act of calming, or the state of being calm.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) However, the degree of sedation caused by diphenhydramine was significantly greater than that caused by cimetidine (P = .0001).
(4) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(5) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(6) Alterations in mean systolic blood pressure appeared to be modest, consisting of a 10 percent decrease from the control level, related to sedation, and a 10 percent rise from baseline during the procedure, associated with a concomitant mild tachycardia.
(7) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(8) A survey into the current usage of tracheal tubes and associated procedures, such as various sedation regimes and antacid therapy, in intensive care units was carried out in Sweden by sending a questionnaire to physicians in charge of intensive care units in 70 acute hospitals which included seven main teaching hospitals.
(9) The results show that both drugs possess sedative, antispasmodic, antipyretic, antiinflammatory, cardiotonic and hypotensive effects, the strength of effect and toxicity being similar.
(10) This suggests that the fluphenazine-induced sedation is not mediated via its effect on brain NA content, but is possibly due to the effect of the drug on NA turnover rates in the brain.
(11) The introduction of non-sedating H1-selective antihistamine drugs and local corticosteroids has been an important therapeutic advance.
(12) Neither a sedative nor other side effects could be seen.
(13) Sedation was measured by asking the subjects to complete visual analog scales.
(14) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
(15) Patients in the reference group used more sedatives and long-acting nitroglycerine and had a lower return-to-work rate during the study period.
(16) A prospective study of the necessity of sedation, or analgesia, or both in total colonoscopy was performed.
(17) Fifteen consecutive patients on peritoneal dialysis who complained of chronic sleep disturbance and requested sedative were selected.
(18) Sedative interaction between midazolam and morphine was found to have a tendency for synergism (interaction coefficient of 1.56, P greater than 0.05) with decreased individual variability in the sedative response to the combination.
(19) Both drugs were relatively well tolerated, but trimipramine had a sedative effect which proved troublesome in some patients.
(20) None of the patients required anaesthesia, analgesics or sedatives.