What's the difference between flitter and flutter?

Flitter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To flutter.
  • (v. t.) To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
  • (v. i.) A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A recent visit to Hamleys' new dolls area turned up a bumper brash-pack of new fashion dolls from the big companies: LaDeeDa Dolls (a swift move by SpinMaster), buzzing Flitter Fairies (Wow Stuff), glow-in-the-dark Bratzillaz (a brazen MGA fast-follow of the huge Mattel Monster High), Ever After High (Mattel), flashing Novi Stars (also MGA, alien dolls with Camden market hair springs and extensions) and all sorts of blinky, noisy merch spinoffs.
  • (2) At higher transvalvular pressure differences the downstream end of the bicuspid valve alternately closes and reopens (flitter), and functions as an acoustic oscillator.
  • (3) The threshold of the onset of flitter varies with the product of the pressure and the square of the length of the valve aperture, divided by the wall tension and thickness.
  • (4) The "Flitter test" proved to be useful in the early post-operative period only.
  • (5) Turbulent flow was created by having, at one end, a cannula acting as a stenosis, producing vibrations or a "flitter" in the wall.
  • (6) The recurrence rate of flitter varies with the tension on the leaflets and inversely with the thickness.
  • (7) Doron Klemer, a football fan who has travelled the world for the past 15 years, flittering from one major sporting event to the next has been an avid Panini collector since Mexico 86.
  • (8) The significance of these data in the onset of the flitter and of the recurrence rate is discussed in terms of the production of sounds and murmurs at the heart valves, vocal cords and other sites.

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.