What's the difference between intermit and interrupt?
Intermit
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
(v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 21 patients with ascertained intermitting block the pressure of the carotid sinus caused an asystolia during 3 seconds.
(2) Principle and method of the mathematico-statistical evaluation of an intermitting therapy are explained at the example of the cholestyramine treatment in incomplete obstruction of the bile ducts.
(3) Here, the two-phase regime is preferred with a continuous application of medicaments lasting for three months and following controlled phase with intermitting application of antituberculotics twice a week.
(4) Analgesia was produced by regularly intermitted 20 min of foot-shock action in Experiment II which evoke an opioid, humorally mediated mechanism.
(5) In the second half of the study under Trapidil in contrast to placebo a clinically relevant additional increase of the distance of the intermitent claudication was the result.
(6) For the first time the hormonal activity of a glomus jugulare tumour, clinically manifest by intermitting hypertension, could be demonstrated by catecholamine level determination in blood.
(7) Mechanic ventilators, and intermitent possitive pressure are recommended even though they have a posenous effect on the cardiac output.
(8) For the detection of intermitting blockings the pressure of the carotid sinus was used.
(9) After application of the drugs a rhythmically intermitting increased excretion of all enzymes mentioned develops.
(10) Two methods of the plasmapheresis were used: the intermitting plasmapheresis with use of a refrigeration centrifuge K-70 (GDR) and the permanent membrane plasma separation with the device A2008 RG of the firm "Fresenius" (FRG).
(11) Following symptoms may refer to: permanent or intermitting stridor in the stenoses of the large respiratory tract (trachea and main bronchi), that is diagnosed as the most frequent anomaly.
(12) Six observations are presented of patients receiving intermitent rifampicin treatment (900 mg twice weekly) that developed acute renal failure during treatment (4 cases) or when treatment was taken up again, after an interruption of 6 months (2 cases).
(13) Both patients developed rachitic manifestations since the first year of life, which persisted despite the administration of massive doses of vitamin D intermitently.
(14) Fourteen cases of patients with photoconvulsive response during intermitent luminous stimulation (eleven women and three men) are reviewed.
(15) In female patients with intermitting or permanent inclination to oedemas and intake of diuretics after exclusion of cardiac, renal, venous and lymphogenic causes should be thought of the clinical picture of the idiopathic and diuretic-induced oedema, respectively.
(16) There was no significant difference in the recurrence rate between children receiving "intermitent" as compared with no phenobarbital.
(17) In case of unsuccessful therapy or recurrence or chronicity the application of an intermitting topical or oral therapy is advised for an extended period of time, during or before the general symptoms, mainly premenstrually, occur.
(18) Disappearance of morphological hairy cells from peripheral blood correlated with reduction of B antigen cells, the patients continue to receive alpha interferon three times weekly and future follow-up of these patients will show if alpha interferon will confirm its effect on intermitent dose regimen.
(19) It is suggested that slowing of all ipsilateral saccades with gaze-paretic nystagmus corresponded to partial destruction of the PPRF, and that intermitted abduction palsy in the ipsilateral eye with adduction nystagmus in the fellow eye was due to intermittant dysfunction of the abducens nucleus.
(20) Furthermore we refer to the importance of the isotope nephrogram to recognize intermitting obstructions of the ureters.
Interrupt
Definition:
(v. t.) To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
(v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
(p. a.) Broken; interrupted.
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.