What's the difference between agitation and flutter?

Agitation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
  • (n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
  • (n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.
  • (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
  • (2) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
  • (3) But what is happening in the UK now has not been seen for decades and has rarely been seen at all since the Chartist agitations of the 1840s.
  • (4) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
  • (5) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
  • (6) The effect of tiapride on the various manifestations of agitation was also spectacular and rapid, and the authors confirm the excellent tolerance of the product.
  • (7) Therefore, the CDS controlling procollagen production and the CDS controlling the inhibition of growth seemed to be linked because the signaling mechanism is disrupted in a parallel manner by agitation.
  • (8) The echo intensity produced by this agent was compared with that of agitated saline solution, indocyanine green and SHU-454 (another experimental saccharide agent for right-sided contrast) during 136 injections in eight dogs.
  • (9) The two groups examined comprise 'hyperactive' mentally handicapped children and senile dementia patients, all of whom showed moderate to severe agitation.
  • (10) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
  • (11) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
  • (12) Ultrasonic preparation with 0.25% sodium hypochlorite solution and final agitation with 50% citric acid solution were found to produce a very clean canal wall, free of smear layer in coronal and middle parts.
  • (13) Photoreceptors were dissociated from retinas by mechanical agitation after mild protease treatment and characterized by light and electron microscopy.
  • (14) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
  • (15) The cells can be defimbriated by sonication, high-speed agitation, or centrifugation through a 40% sucrose solution.
  • (16) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
  • (17) Blot and give 2 fast changes in absolute ethanol with agitation before transferring to xylene.
  • (18) Distractibility, inappropriate sexual behavior, agitation or seizures were lacking.
  • (19) The successful use of midazolam to treat psychomotor agitation in this patient is also reported.
  • (20) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.

Flutter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
  • (v. t.) To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
  • (n.) The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
  • (n.) Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (2) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
  • (3) This study demonstrates that 1) complete AV block is not a contraindication to the Fontan operation, 2) some patients may not require AV synchrony postoperatively for survival, and 3) postoperative atrial flutter or fibrillation may cease or be easier to control after the Fontan operation.
  • (4) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
  • (5) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
  • (6) Thirty patients with long-standing (mean 30 days) type I atrial flutter (AF) were treated with overdrive atrial pacing.
  • (7) Mean proficiency scores were 51% for atrial flutter and 35% for ventricular tachycardia.
  • (8) However, atrial flutter often recurs despite the use of these conventional antiarrhythmic regimens.
  • (9) The results of programmed stimulation were estimated to be positive when sustained or unsustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia was triggered, and negative when ventricular fibrillation, ventricular flutter unsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or no arrhythmia could be induced.
  • (10) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
  • (11) Single or repetitive supraventricular premature beats were found in 65 (41%), paroxysmal atrial or junctional tachycardias in 20 (12%), bouts of atrial flutter or fibrillation in 3 (2%).
  • (12) This study investigated the effects of pharmacologically induced changes in atrial conduction velocity and refractoriness, in the conversion and suppression of atrial flutter induced in the open-chest anesthetized dog by intercaval crush and rapid atrial pacing.
  • (13) (5) Development of postoperative atrial fibrillation or flutter has not been associated with peroperative or postoperative events.
  • (14) The results of 181 therapeutic stimulations in cases of atrial flutter (a-flut) have shown that a-flut is terminated in a wide range by means of programmed stimulation (PS).
  • (15) At follow-up (mean 6.5 years), 83% of the patients were alive (49% without atrial flutter and 34% with atrial flutter) and 17% died (10% suddenly, 6% of nonsudden cardiac cause and 1% of noncardiac cause).
  • (16) Five patients with bicuspid aortic valves showed mitral valve diastolic flutter indicative of aortic regurgitation.
  • (17) Spontaneous change in direction of F waves in atrial flutter is rare.
  • (18) SVT includes paroxysmal SVT, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia and junctional tachycardia (enhanced automaticity).
  • (19) There was an area of slow conduction during atrial flutter in the low right atrium.
  • (20) Recent studies of human type 1 atrial flutter demonstrated reentry in the right atrium and an area of slow conduction in the low posteroseptal right atrium.