What's the difference between eruption and outbreak?

Eruption


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.
  • (n.) That which bursts forth.
  • (n.) A violent exclamation; ejaculation.
  • (n.) The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (2) The data indicate that with force present for 10% of the time (1:9), there was little or no effect on eruption rate.
  • (3) Stimulation of development and eruption of the teeth after administration of anabolic drugs.
  • (4) In many countries, increasing rates of skin eruptions are attributed to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
  • (5) A high proportion of patients (37.9 percent) had delayed or failure of eruption of permanent teeth and 24.1 percent had rotation or displacement of permanent teeth.
  • (6) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
  • (7) A palpable, purpuric, nonpruritic eruption occurred in a 64-year-old man nine days after he received intravenous streptokinase therapy, which was successful in treating acute myocardial infarction.
  • (8) Two patients who had had idiopathic steatorrhoea for several years developed typical eruptions of dermatitis herpetiformis.
  • (9) More and more of ontogeny has been taken over for eruption.
  • (10) The antimalarial drugs can clear up skin lesions in patients with polymorphous light eruption and solar urticaria who cannot obtain relief with topical sunscreens and in some patients with porphyria cutanea tarda.
  • (11) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
  • (12) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
  • (13) Allergic reactions have been uncommon and mainly restricted to transient skin eruptions.
  • (14) Ultimately, response to withdrawal of the drug causing resolution of the dermatosis would confirm the diagnosis of a drug eruption.
  • (15) The involution of crown odontoblasts after primary dentinogenesis in teeth of limited eruption is discussed.
  • (16) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.
  • (17) During follow up over two years, she had a cutaneous eruption with infiltration of histiocytes and osteolytic lesions in the skull.
  • (18) Erythema gyratum repens is a cutaneous eruption with a unique morphology resembling a wood grain pattern.
  • (19) Mount Sakurajima in the south of the Kyushu Island of Japan erupts hundreds of times a year and continuously emits large amounts of ash.
  • (20) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.

Outbreak


Definition:

  • (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
  • (2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (3) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (4) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
  • (5) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
  • (6) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
  • (7) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
  • (8) The present study identifies and values the costs of a hospital based outbreak of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
  • (9) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
  • (10) However, focal outbreaks in small scale still occurred every year.
  • (11) The number of reported outbreaks increased from 20 in 1981 to 64 in 1988, 114 in 1989, 82 in 1990 and 52 in 1991 (January to June).
  • (12) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
  • (13) The authors studied 1,211 laboratory-confirmed, non-outbreak-related cases of giardiasis in Vermont residents reported through Vermont's laboratory-based active surveillance system between 1983 and 1986.
  • (14) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
  • (15) Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC’s 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
  • (16) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (17) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
  • (18) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
  • (19) The restriction enzyme patterns of the nine clinical isolates from the 1983 Massachusetts outbreak were identical to each other but differed from those of raw milk isolates recovered from sources supplying the pasteurizer.
  • (20) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.