What's the difference between poison and unpoison?
Poison
Definition:
(n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
(n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
(n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
(n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
(n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
(v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
(2) It can induce acute cholinesterase poisoning, which is rapidly reversible on discontinuation of exposure.
(3) There is a disparity between the number of reported cases of poisoning and the number of chemical analyses performed for the identification and quantitative determination of a particular poison.
(4) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(5) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(6) Extrapyramidal syndromes after ischemic anoxia are rare, when compared to their relative frequency after carbon monoxide poisoning.
(7) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
(8) Excess levels of selenium (2.5 and 5 ppm) in the vitamin E-deficient diet had little or no effect on spleen size or hematocrit of rats not receiving lead, but partially prevented the splenomegaly and anemia of red cells from either non-poisoned or lead-oisoned vitamin E-deficient rats, but not as effectively as vitamin E. These results show that vitamin E status of rats is more important that selenium status in determining response to toxic levels of lead.
(9) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(10) Three esterase inhibitors, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, bis-(p-nitrophenyl)-phosphate, and diisopropylfluorophosphate, had no effect on the antidote effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine, although each provided partial protection against acetaminophen poisoning.
(11) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(12) In vivo the administration of captopril prevented the toxic effects of mercury poisoning on membrane permeability, oxidative phosphorylation and Ca++ homeostasis.
(13) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
(14) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(15) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(16) Zelaya's food comes separately and is prepared by his daughter because he fears being poisoned.
(17) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
(18) A method of poisoning cats with thallium is described.
(19) They were given individually to guinea pigs prior to poisoning with 2 x LD50 soman to test their efficacy against organophosphorus-induced convulsions, brain damage, and lethality.
(20) This incident prompted the poison center to evaluate our emergency response capabilities.
Unpoison
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove or expel poison from.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of this study are as follows: ATPNa2 is found to be a more potent effector of the Na efflux in unpoisoned fibers than ATPMg on an equimolar basis, but not more potent than ADPNa2.
(2) The Ca efflux from unpoisoned axons was reduced if external calcium was replaced with magnesium, or external sodium with lithium, choline or dextrose.
(3) However, the intensity of these effects was much less important than that previously reported at unpoisoned junctions.
(4) Control experiments injecting EGTA into unpoisoned nerve terminals showed no apparent effect on evoked transmitter release.
(5) However, CCCP and La3+ which drastically deplete clear synaptic vesicles from unpoisoned terminals failed to markedly affect the density of synaptic vesicles at poisoned terminals.
(6) Muscles were either in O(2) and unpoisoned or in N(2) and poisoned with iodoacetic acid to prevent aerobic and glycolytic recovery processes.3.
(7) Evidence is presented to show that much of the apparent dependence on Cao of the Ca efflux from unpoisoned axons probably does not reflect a membrane process but results instead from the existence of a Ca-binding matrix external to the plasma membrane.
(8) With chloroplasts unpoisoned by DCMU, PMS quenches fluorescence and considerably stimulates proton uptake, the pH gradient and phosphorylation.
(9) The rate of spontaneous quantum bumps in unpoisoned cells can be reduced to below normal levels by injection of ATP.
(10) The apparent affinity for Cao of Cao-activated Ca efflux is very similar in unpoisoned axons immersed in sea waters containing Na, Li, Tris or K as major cation, whereas in poisoned axons the affinity in Na and Li is about the same but higher than that in choline and Tris.
(11) The paraoxon-treated animals revealed a significantly lower perfusion rate of the kidney, skeletal muscle, skin and spleen in comparison to the unpoisoned control group.
(12) Analysis of the curve responses shows that the transient component of each curve is best described by a single, fast exponential term equation in case of Na addition to preparation unpoisonned with ouabain.
(13) Injection of the protein inhibitor of Corbin into unpoisoned fibers leads to reduced stimulation by 10 mM theophylline.
(14) Measurements of intitial chemical changes and recovery oxygen consumption (deltaO2) were made in unpoisoned aerobic frog sartorius muscles at 0 degrees C to provide independent measures of the chemical energy used for isometric tetani of various durations.
(15) Furthermore, poisoned terminals are no more efficient than unpoisoned ones in dealing with Ca2+ overloads.
(16) As this conclusion is important to an understanding of the chemical energetics of contraction, similar experments were performed on unpoisoned, oxygenated Rana pipiens sartorius muscles.
(17) Calcium and calcium-activated potassium currents displayed amplitudes, time courses and stimulation frequency-dependent inactivation similar to those observed in unpoisoned preparations.
(18) Ca2+ influx and Ca2(+)-dependent K+ currents in the sprout membrane were found to be similar to those described in unpoisoned endings.
(19) Increasing extracellular Ca2+ to 8 mmol l-1 or substituting Ca2+ with La3+ (0.1 and 1.0 mmol l-1) or depolarizing the nerve terminals by 20 mmol l-1 K+ markedly increases miniature end-plate potential frequency in normal muscle, but in BoTx-E poisoned preparations none of these ions, with the exception of 1 mmol l-1 La3+, was able to restore spontaneous quantal transmitter release to levels recorded at unpoisoned junctions.
(20) Fibers pretreated with ouabain show no transitory inhibition when 10 mM theophylline is applied, but show prompt stimulation the magnitude of which is comparable to that observed with unpoisoned fibers.