What's the difference between insidious and sudden?

Insidious


Definition:

  • (a.) Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe.
  • (a.) Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The controversy over the effects of low-level exposure to radiation enhances the perception of radiation as a particularly insidious phenomenon of nature.
  • (2) Meningiomas of the temporal bone are insidious and aggressive lesions.
  • (3) Onset is generally brutal, as in acute enteritis or an extradigestive infection (ENT...) but persists, or else, more often, the syndrome appears insidiously over several days.
  • (4) As the clinical presentation of "catheter infections" is often uncharacteristic and insidious, a definite diagnosis depends on bacteriological examination of the catheter.
  • (5) Seven of these patients had presented with insidious symptoms, seven had serum markers of hepatitis B infection, and the four who were HBsAg positive had relatively lower serum HBsAg concentrations than did those patients who continued with chronic persistent hepatitis.
  • (6) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
  • (7) The clinical presentations were similar to other forms of peritonitis complicating PD except for a more insidious onset.
  • (8) A 56-year-old woman developed insidiously progressive, painless weakness of her left hand.
  • (9) Patients with multiple choledochal stones usually presented with insidious onset of painless jaundice, simulating malignant bile duct obstruction, in contrast to the abrupt onset of cholangitis or pain experienced by patients with one to three stones.
  • (10) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
  • (11) A women with longstanding seropositive rheumatoid arthritis presented with the insidious onset of a hyperviscosity syndrome.
  • (12) Respiratory distress may be insidious in onset and must be anticipated.
  • (13) In childhood, scoliosis is usually insidious and is rarely symptomatic.
  • (14) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, although it is sometimes unrecognized and insidious, is one of the etiologies to be considered.
  • (15) This is incompetent journalism in its most insidious form."
  • (16) The Spurs were missing simple shots but insidiously squirmed their way back into the game, with James returning to Earth and Leonard in fine shooting form.
  • (17) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
  • (18) Onset of pain was insidious and the symptoms were thought to be related to synovitis due to SLE.
  • (19) Tracheostomy may be a life saving procedure in these circumstances, but delay may prove fatal when its need arises insidiously.
  • (20) The early and precise diagnosis of linitis plastica-type tumours of the rectum and anal canal is difficult because of their insidious presentation and anaplastic nature.

Sudden


Definition:

  • (a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.
  • (a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • (a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.
  • (n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
  • (2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (3) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (4) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (5) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (6) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
  • (7) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (8) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (9) In addition, recent studies have not confirmed previous observations that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia increases ventricular ectopy or contributes to sudden death.
  • (10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
  • (11) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
  • (12) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
  • (13) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
  • (14) Furthermore, myocarditis, pathological changes of the conduction system, and other rare conditions can lead to sudden cardiac death.
  • (15) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
  • (16) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
  • (17) The animal showed progressive hindlimb paresis of sudden onset.
  • (18) In almost 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in ACMP foci of acute myocardial ischemia are found, that can lead to ventricular fibrillation with lethal outcome.
  • (19) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (20) Our data show that the incidence of sudden death over 51 months is relatively low in patients with single vessel disease.