What's the difference between stupefacient and stupor?
Stupefacient
Definition:
(a.) Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.
(n.) Anything promoting stupefaction; a narcotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(2) The findings suggest that the consequences of abuse of inhalant stupefacients significantly influence the syndrome of alcohol intoxication, potentiating the psychopathological signs.
(3) The study was carried out 11 boys, 12-17 years old, treated in the Therapeutic-Educational Guidance Center for the Young because of using inhalant stupefacients and incliniation to alcohol abuse.
(4) The inhalant stupefacients were taken for a period of 6 months to three years, of alcohol--from 6 months to 2 years.
(5) After illustrating the new set of rules in matter of stupefacient and psychotropic drugs, introduced in Italy on December 1975, and the duties assigned by the law to the judicial power, the findings are set forth here of an investigation carried out on 40 youths whose addiction to the use of drugs had been reported to the juvenile court of Rome up to April 30, 1977.
Stupor
Definition:
(n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
(n.) Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Example Sentences:
(1) On neurological examination, he showed stupor,pupils and eye position were normal.
(2) When outcome was examined in patients who were stuporous or comatose on admission, a significant increase in septal shift was found among patients with a poor outcome, but there was no significant relationship between outcome and degree of pineal or aqueductal shift.
(3) The clinical picture is near-monthly recurrence of episodes of stupor or excitement lasting about 1 or 2 weeks, which are accompanied by delusion and in some cases also by hallucinations or confusion.
(4) Mannitol intoxication is ordinarily characterized by confusion, lethargy, stupor, and if severe enough, coma.
(5) The authors describe the clinical picture of a case with a peak-wave stupor in a 16 year-old patient where the main clinical expression of this disorder was behavioural sleepiness.
(6) The central anticholinergic syndrome (CAS) includes central signs (somnolence, confusion, amnesia, agitation, hallucinations, dysarthria, ataxia, delirium, stupor, coma) and peripheral signs (dry mouth, dry skin, tachycardia, visual disturbances and difficulty in micturition).
(7) Stupor or coma at onset occurred more frequently in the IVH (62%) than in the INF (6%) or ICH (13%) groups and was reflected in significantly lower median Glasgow Coma Scores in the IVH group (7) than in the INF (15) and ICH (14) groups.
(8) Compared to saline- and endotoxin-infused rats, animals receiving the monokine mixture had no change in mean arterial blood pressure or heart rate but exhibited overt signs of morbidity including stupor and diarrhea.
(9) If rehydration is accomplished too rapidly the child becomes edematous, develops increased intracranial pressure, stupor, and convulsions.
(10) Grade II indicates disturbance of consciousness (stupor), or progressive neurological deficits, and size of hematoma less than 50 mm without acute hydrocephalus.
(11) The patient became stuporous and died 7 months after admission.
(12) Dexamethasone was administered when the increase in enzyme levels caused the patient to fall into a stupor.
(13) To determine the incidence of this pattern in children in stupor or coma, 154 portable EEGs in 111 children with mental status changes were reviewed.
(14) Increased escape behavior, heterogrooming, squeaking, and two cases of stupor were observed, suggesting possible equivalents of anxiousness.
(15) They are the stiff, stuporous confusion state, as well as the anxious, agitated confusion state.
(16) This case was compared with others in the literature for which the origin of the stuporous state have been hypothesized.
(17) In this group only three cases died due to neurological condition in grade III-IV (Stupor and Coma).
(18) The clinical signs showed: vomiting, dehydration, Kussamaul's respiration, sopor, stupor and in 5 cases a state of coma.
(19) It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.
(20) It was she who refused to believe the Goan police's assertion that her daughter had merely drowned in an alcoholic, drug-induced stupor, one more hapless victim of Anjuna's dark underworld.