What's the difference between intermission and interruption?

Intermission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
  • (n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
  • (n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
  • (n.) Intervention; interposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No significant toxic side effects occurred and no refractoriness ensued during intermission between treatment periods.
  • (2) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
  • (3) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
  • (4) What does Alain Vigneault tell his Rangers during the intermission?
  • (5) The acute stage of the disease was observed in 76 patients, 73 patients were in the intermission period.
  • (6) The torpid process of chronic bronchitis, the two-phase pattern of the disease, dyspnea at 3-4 month intervals, intermissions, edema and failure of complex therapy with antibiotics and cardiac glycosides provided a tentative diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia with affection of the myocardium.
  • (7) The prospect hung that a bad call could decide everything hung in the air as the teams left for the second intermission.
  • (8) By the intermission, questions had begun to spread among the celebrity guests.
  • (9) Of these, 61 were investigated in depressive state, 15 in mania, 28 in intermission.
  • (10) These results clearly indicate that the prevention of the portal congestion improves recovery from energy metabolic disorder and, in addition, division of total ischemic time with moderate intermission is effective to diminish the metabolic disorder due to occlusion of both hepatic artery and portal vein.
  • (11) Their first period (after which they trailed 1-0) was so bad, they were booed off the ice as the intermission began.
  • (12) The clinical and social parameters of the prognosis in mental diseases first expressed after 40 years of age were on the whole lower but they reflected the modern tendency to attenuation of pathological manifestations: by the time of examination the status of 48% of patients was characterized by intermission or syndromes of a nonpsychotic level.
  • (13) During the intermission, between the horrors, the guests repaired to an upstairs room for coffee and biscuits.
  • (14) This procedure was repeated eight times in each rat with a 15-min intermission.
  • (15) Treatment with 3 days intermission showed the same favorable results as continuous application, although the amount of glucocorticoids applied was 75% less.
  • (16) Bilateral electrolytic lesions were made in various areas of hypothalamus or thalamus on the 6th day of a period of daily radioiodide injections (1 or 5 muCi125I-daily per animal) in male rats weighing about 350 g. Such injections were continued for another 4 days and after 2 days of intermission the blood thyroid hormone was acutely depleted by isovolemic exchange transfusion of thyroid hormone free blood cell suspension.
  • (17) In intermissions these changes were expressed either minimally or were absent altogether.
  • (18) It was an eight-hour play, I think, with two intermissions where you went out for dinner and came back.
  • (19) HDL-cholesterol, more specifically HDL2-cholesterol, reduced transiently during the 1st VLCD, intermission, and 2nd VLCD periods, and tended to increase in the 2nd LCD.
  • (20) After this intermission in arsenic exposure the urinary excretion of arsenic decreased to normal values, whereas the vasospastic reaction in the fingers remained.

Interruption


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
  • (n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
  • (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
  • (n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Microvascular anastomoses were performed on rat common carotid arteries using either continuous or interrupted sutures.
  • (2) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (3) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
  • (4) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
  • (5) Mus norvegicus albicus, by interrupting a free-running rhythm with light signals of short duration.
  • (6) In only six patients (14%) the ventricular tachycardia was initiated by an ectopic ventricular complex interrupting the T wave.
  • (7) The longest of the cDNA clones (1507 nucleotides) apparently originated from an unprocessed messenger RNA, since the nucleotide sequence encoding BNP-26 was interrupted by an intron of 554 nucleotides.
  • (8) Acute transmural myocardial infarction has been reported to functionally denervate the normal myocardium distal to the infarcted zone by interrupting neurotransmission in axons coursing in the subepicardial region of the myocardial necrosis.
  • (9) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) Renal failure was always reversible with interruption or dosage reduction of the drug.
  • (12) All cellular signals characterized so far are reverted during retrodifferentiation: Redistribution of PKC and down-regulation of c-fos and c-jun contribute to an interruption of the differentiation-associated transsignaling cascade.
  • (13) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
  • (14) We conclude that infusion system malfunction resulting in interruption of insulin flow is a common occurrence, is often associated with temporary hyperglycemia, and may account for some of the increased incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis previously described in these patients.
  • (15) The results show that DA-receptors located within the pituitary itself are involved in the control of MSH release indicating that the effect of hypothalamic lesions on pituitary MSH content is primarily caused by interruption of dopaminergic neurotransmission in the hypophysis.
  • (16) Not only early diagnosis and treatment before the appearance of hepatic failure or neurological symptoms, but also treatment throughout life without interruption is important for improving the prognosis of Wilson's disease.
  • (17) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
  • (18) Groups of photosensitive female house sparrows have been kept under night-interruption and intermittent light cycles for a period of 6 weeks.
  • (19) Other associated malformations were an interrupted aortic arch and an atrial septal defect.
  • (20) Relapses after interruption of treatment seemed to be less frequent than with Tetracycline therapy.