What's the difference between concurrent and intercurrent?
Concurrent
Definition:
(a.) Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating.
(a.) Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.
(a.) Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
(a.) Meeting in one point.
(n.) One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
(n.) One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
(n.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(4) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(5) Addition in the cultures of 4-deoxypyridoxine, a potent antagonist of vitamin B6 coenzymes, concurrently with the mitogen, inhibits the induction of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
(6) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
(7) In the first experiment ovariectomized female hamsters were administered varying dosages of progesterone (P), dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or CI-628 at the same time (concurrently) as estrogen (EB) or 48 hr after EB (sequentially).
(8) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(9) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(10) In the present work, we measured the inactivation of methionine synthase and the concurrent homocysteine export rate of two murine and four human cell lines during nitrous oxide exposure.
(11) This indicates a potential use for 1,25(OH)2D3 to prevent and treat hypocalcaemic cows with or without concurrent hypomagnesaemia.
(12) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(13) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
(14) Inhibition of RNA synthesis by MTX was prevented by concurrent administration of HX.
(15) However, MPA did not enhance survival when given concurrently with radiotherapy; indeed, at the higher of these two doses, median survival of tumor-bearers was slightly less than with radiotherapy alone.
(16) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(17) Concurrently, stereology was applied to quantitate: (1) the density of RNA labelling, and (2) changes in the size of the nucleus and nucleolus in response to estrogen treatment.
(18) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
(19) The immunologic technique compared favorably with the autoradiographic methods performed concurrently on the same cultures.
(20) Enzyme levels in strains with concurrent mutations in both regulatory genes are considerably higher than the sum of the levels in strains with a cytR or a deoR mutation alone, indicating a certain co-operativity between the two repressor proteins.
Intercurrent
Definition:
(a.) Running between or among; intervening.
(a.) Not belonging to any particular season.
(a.) Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease.
(n.) Something intervening.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intense mucositis and intercurrent infection provide the main problems during treatment and close management is essential.
(2) During periods of complete remission, in the absence of any intercurrent condition, the value remained within the normal range.
(3) In contrast, animals that had undergone a weak intercurrent infection were not protected.
(4) Patients with left-sided tumours were found to have a higher mortality due to myocardial infarction than patients with right-sided tumours (P less than 0.01) but there was no difference in regard to total intercurrent mortality.
(5) A virus hepatitis B was observed intercurrently in 8 patients with malignant lymphomas or plasmacytoma respectively.
(6) Intercurrent disease made it necessary to terminate the first long-term experiment prematurely after 1 yr. No evidence of serious toxicity was recorded.
(7) In the first group (14 patients) classic hyperthyroidism developed after recovery from the intercurrent disease.
(8) The principal causes were: haemorrhage in 45.8%, infections in 20.8%, intercurrent diseases in 20.8%, vasculo-renal syndromes in 10.4% and thromboses in 2%.
(9) These results indicate that increase in serum-T4 with normal serum-T3 in patients with intercurrent systemic disease is not always the result of hyperthyroidism and in many cases probably reflects changes in peripheral metabolism of T4.
(10) In the RT alone group, 45 (80%) patients are alive in CR, 5 (9%) died of HD, and 6 (11%) died of intercurrent causes.
(11) From this study it is apparent that the major determinants of a fatal outcome in bleeding peptic ulcer diseases were serious intercurrent illness and rebleeding.
(12) Four additional patients did not have follow-up endoscopy because three expired from intercurrent disease before endoscopy could be carried out and one refused to have the procedure because of lack of symptoms.
(13) In 6 patients antibacterial antibodies occurred during the observation period but were, in all 6 occasions, in close relation to acute intercurrent bacterial infections and not related to the dialysis treatment.
(14) High IFN-alpha levels in 4 patients coincided with intercurrent infections but were not accompanied by a parallel increase of the TNF-alpha levels.
(15) These data indicate that although an intercurrent melanoma during pregnancy has a worse prognosis than the control groups, once a woman has been diagnosed as having a cutaneous melanoma, a subsequent pregnancy has no effect on recurrence rate or survival.
(16) During the present hospital investigation in Sudan, 58 patients admitted for intercurrent complications of advanced hepatosplenic schistosomiasis were studied.
(17) Alcohol withdrawal is a common condition which often complicates intercurrent illness.
(18) In the radiotherapy-alone group, 38 died from intercurrent diseases, 36 from bladder cancer, two from therapy-related complications and cause of death was unknown in 30 patients.
(19) There may be two forms of AML, one similar to that seen in industrialized countries, the other occurring at high prevalence in African children of low socio-economic status, often presenting with chloroma, and perhaps associated with immune suppression secondary to malnutrition, malaria and other intercurrent infections.
(20) Patients with psoriasis vulgaris (462) were studied by questionnaire to find the effect on psoriasis of drug therapy for intercurrent diseases or focal infections.