What's the difference between failure and rupture?

Failure


Definition:

  • (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
  • (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
  • (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
  • (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
  • (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
  • (n.) A failing; a slight fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (3) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
  • (4) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (5) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (6) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
  • (8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (9) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (10) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (11) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (12) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (13) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (14) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
  • (15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
  • (16) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
  • (17) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
  • (18) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
  • (19) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
  • (20) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.

Rupture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
  • (n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
  • (n.) Hernia. See Hernia.
  • (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
  • (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
  • (v. t.) To produce a hernia in.
  • (v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (2) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (3) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (4) Electromechanic dissociation, sinus bradycardia, nodal rhythm followed by idioventricular rhythm and asystole, were observed following myocardial rupture.
  • (5) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
  • (6) There is no evidence that tumors complicated by rupture and hemoperitoneum require chemotherapy.
  • (7) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
  • (8) Left ventricular rupture is a serious complication of mitral valve replacement.
  • (9) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
  • (10) The maximal score was noted 24 hours before follicular rupture in 47.5%.
  • (11) Patients with SAH of a ruptured ACoA aneurysm did not differ significantly from the control group in any of the tests used.
  • (12) As a consequence of deformation from spherical-to-cylindrical shape in the microvasculature, demands for increased surface membrane area leads to increases in surface membrane tension above critical levels for rupture, and the cancer cells are rapidly and lethally damaged.
  • (13) Five operative deaths (24%) occurred, including two of three patients with rupture (67%) and two of seven patients (28%) in the suprarenal group.
  • (14) We speculate that the preferential rupture of the H2B-H4 contact is of physiological significance.
  • (15) If deaths from ruptured uterus are to be avoided, early diagnosis is essential.
  • (16) Heart rupture was found in 25 (4.4%) of 560 patients with myocardial infarction admitted to the Coronary Care Unit of the Department of Cardiology, Padua Medical School.
  • (17) A case is reported of a 42-year-old woman who experienced uterine rupture in the course of a prostaglandin-induced abortion.
  • (18) These findings are in agreement with the concept that irregular lesions represent ruptured atherosclerotic plaques and demonstrate that they usually originate from mildly occlusive smooth plaques.
  • (19) With 25--50 atm higher gas pressures, the decompression usually produced killing and cell rupture, although differences in tolerances existed among the various organisms.
  • (20) The results indicate that reduced platelet function does relate to SAH and may either contribute to aneurysmal rupture in cases of SAH or be a consequence of it.