What's the difference between intercurrent and intervening?
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.
Intervening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intervene
Example Sentences:
(1) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(2) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(3) In another protocol, fourteen volunteers received calcitriol 0.25 microgram, 0.5 microgram, and 1.0 microgram twice a day each for 14 days with intervening control periods of 2 weeks.
(4) The catalytic activity of ribonucleic acid is reviewed, with the intervening sequence (IVS) of the ribosomal RNA precursor of Tetrahymena serving as a major example.
(5) The initiator of an aggressive encounter was likely to be successful if there was no adult interaction, but to be unsuccessful if an adult intervened.
(6) The nested gene is oriented in a direction opposite to that of factor VIII and contains no intervening sequences.
(7) This study addresses the practices of BSE and intervening factors influencing BSE routines in women with a known breast malignancy.
(8) A binaural noise with an interaural time difference of 0.8 msec was presented in three conditions: alone, with intervening noise that was identical between the two ears, or with uncorrelated intervening noise.
(9) The different entity of reversibility of bronchial obstruction is due to the various mechanisms intervening in different patients.
(10) In 11 adult patients with isolated valvular aortic stenosis, the progression of the disease was assessed by two heart catheterisations without intervening aortic valve surgery.
(11) We have designed a bacterial expression vector series which is optimized for efficient site-directed mutagenesis and subsequent protein synthesis without intervening subcloning steps.
(12) Seven intervening sequences interrupt the ovomucoid mRNA sequence in chromosomal DNA.
(13) The vessel number, the vessel diameter and the distance intervening between contiguous vessels were measured.
(14) Children were delivered after uncomplicated pregnancies (except hypothyroxinemia), had birth weights of at least 2,500 grams, and were excluded when postnatal insults intervened.
(15) Judge Morrison intervened: "As you know, Dr Karadzic … it isn't the Serbian people who are indicted in this case, nor the Serbian state.
(16) This percutaneous procedure consists of creation of an internal fistula between the 2 pelves by incision of the intervening tissue with an optical urethrotome.
(17) Transmission of M bovis occurring in the absence of some other intervening factor was probably of minimal importance.
(18) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(19) As for group I specifically, colonic ulcerations due to Cytomegalovirus were present in all the patients, varying from punctate and superficial erosions to deep ulcerations, with granular and friable intervening mucosa.
(20) The first and last test were unloaded and the intervening tests were performed with external added resistances of 33, 57, and 73 cm H2O X l-1 X s in random order.