What's the difference between outburst and paroxysm?

Outburst


Definition:

  • (n.) A bursting forth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On that occasion, she related how Manning had punched her during a violent outburst that led to him being demoted to the rank of private.
  • (2) As the emotional outbursts go up, the access to facts seems to go down," Autonomy said in a statement in response to HP's filing.
  • (3) The 48-year-old Dubliner has since played down that outburst as the youthful hyperbole of a pilot at Aer Lingus in the early 1980s.
  • (4) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
  • (5) That was why his outburst was so surprising, especially given that Chelsea were about to deliver an attacking free-kick into the opposition box and Hazard is not generally known for his heading ability – or indeed his tracking-back skills.
  • (6) Spicer's "letter" went viral on the internet when it appeared a week after Gillard's outburst, gathering almost 7,000 likes, but few of her female colleagues were prepared to publicly endorse it.
  • (7) For the next 24 hours, media attention switched away from Labour’s clampdown on tax loopholes and towards Fallon’s outburst.
  • (8) Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent outburst about the grand mufti and the Holocaust would be ludicrous if it hadn’t been so utterly ill judged.
  • (9) The outburst came less than a month after the Conservative candidate came under fire for calling Livingstone a "fucking liar" in a lift after a row over their respective tax arrangements.
  • (10) After his meeting with De Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
  • (11) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
  • (12) The Australian Kyrgios dispatched Argentina’s Schwartzman 6-0, 6-2, 7-6 to progress to the second round but risked a fine for his on-court outburst.
  • (13) But the narrow question of what these outbursts do to his electoral prospects is secondary to the damage they are clearly doing to American political life.
  • (14) We have seen upsets and outbursts, sunshine and downpours, staggering exits and gaudy new arrivals.
  • (15) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
  • (16) Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found on Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the US border, in the latest suspected outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.
  • (17) Recently there was an outburst of purpura fulminans in Southern California and other parts of the country.
  • (18) Watson will try to strike a conciliatory tone but has been at loggerheads with the leadership during the election after an outburst about allegations of entryism into the party.
  • (19) This apparent and sudden outburst of prime ministerial concern with migrant literacy does not sit well with the fact that his government – ignoring warnings and pleas from activists and colleges – last year slashed funding for a £45m programme to help foreign language speakers learn English.
  • (20) Triassic-Jurassic, c 200 million years ago Three-quarters of species were lost, again most likely due to another huge outburst of volcanism.

Paroxysm


Definition:

  • (n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.
  • (n.) Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
  • (2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (3) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
  • (4) The patients who had little or no paroxysmal activity during sleep were the youngest.
  • (5) Following a midcollicular transection the paroxysmal bulbar activity abruptly disappeared.
  • (6) We speculate that this paroxysmal activity is a type of seizure discharge.
  • (7) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
  • (8) The first patient had paroxysmal headaches from an arteriovenous malformation which resolved following embolization.
  • (9) A diagnosis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria may be suggested with magnetic resonance imaging, based on the massive renal cortical hemosiderosis that occurs in this disease.
  • (10) In all patients, the nystagmus elicited during the paroxysm was compatible with excitation of the posterior semicircular canal.
  • (11) The administration of vitamin E, a natural antioxidant, to a patient with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) failed to diminish the urinary excretion of 59-Fe as monitored by 59-Fe whole body counting and urinary loss of isotope.
  • (12) 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%).
  • (13) A 16 year old white female presented with paroxysmal cough and hemoptysis of recent onset.
  • (14) The effectiveness and electrophysiologic mechanisms of antiarrhythmic effect of digoxin were examined in 27 patients with paroxysmal atrioventricular nodal reciprocal tachycardia (PAVNRT) and supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) due to latent complementary conductive pathways, i. e. latent Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome.
  • (15) It thus appears that paroxysmal, vagally mediated complete AV block should be seriously considered in patients with unexplained syncope.
  • (16) In 13 cases of infantile spasms whose EEG showed hypasrhythmia, paroxysmal discharges were completely or remarkably suppressed in 4 cases, partially suppressed in 3 cases, but not improved in 6 cases.
  • (17) The majority were abnormal, and those from patients with intracranial pathology often showed asymmetry of delta activity and paroxysmal discharges.
  • (18) We report on 2 patients with a history of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in whom 2:1 AV block with persistence of the arrhythmia was documented.
  • (19) Because of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and fatigue, the patient underwent investigation.
  • (20) Both paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) and left ventricular dysfunction were reversed with administration of digoxin and propranolol hydrochloride.