INTERVENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intervention mean? 

• INTERVENTION (noun)
  The noun INTERVENTION has 5 senses:

1. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

2. a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

3. the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

4. (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings

5. care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

  Familiarity information: INTERVENTION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERVENTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

intercession; intervention

Context example:

it occurs without human intervention

Hypernyms ("intervention" is a kind of...):

engagement; involution; involvement; participation (the act of sharing in the activities of a group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intervention"):

intermediation; mediation (the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement)

Derivation:

intervene (get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

interference; intervention

Hypernyms ("intervention" is a kind of...):

foreign policy (a policy governing international relations)

Antonym:

nonintervention (a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

interposition; intervention

Hypernyms ("intervention" is a kind of...):

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits

Hypernyms ("intervention" is a kind of...):

legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

intervention; treatment

Hypernyms ("intervention" is a kind of...):

aid; attention; care; tending (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something)

Meronyms (parts of "intervention"):

curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intervention"):

massage (kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation)

rest-cure (rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc.)

hydropathy; hydrotherapy (the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease)

autogenic therapy; autogenic training; autogenics (training patients in self-induced relaxation)

acupressure; G-Jo; shiatsu (treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body)

acupuncture; stylostixis (treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin)

osteoclasis (treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone)

osteopathy (therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles)

orthoptics (treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles))

orthodontic treatment (dental treatment that corrects irregularities of the teeth or of the relation of the teeth to surrounding anatomy; treatment is usually by braces or mechanical aids)

naprapathy (a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues)

naturopathy (a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process)

fomentation (application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation)

chiropractic (a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure)

detoxification (a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances)

modality (a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment)

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

 Context examples 

The study outlined in the medical journal looked at four types of intervention to try to prevent dementia — prescription drugs, exercise, cognitive training, and nonprescription vitamins and supplements.

(Study: There's No Fail-safe Way to Prevent Dementia, VOA)

Lifestyle interventions recommending a higher consumption of foods containing plenty of unsaturated fat can have an impact on the quality of dietary fat in children's diets.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Any intervention to help breast cancer patients overcome the physical or psychological effects of their disease or its treatment.

(Breast Cancer Rehabilitation, NCI Thesaurus)

This could include talking about mental health issues, training teachers to spot signs of depression and creating intervention programmes for vulnerable young adults.

(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)

By speeding the discovery process and translation of the best discoveries into clinical interventions, the CII will transform cancer care through more effective and efficient information exchanges among all involved in cancer research.

(Cancer Informatics Infrastructure, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of adverse event that is usually transient and may require only minimal treatment or therapeutic intervention.

(Mild Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control.

(Automatic, NCI Thesaurus)

Any intervention for management of a malignant neoplasm.

(Cancer Therapeutic Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

However, in many cases, pain returns after the interventions.

(Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain, National Institutes of Health)

In addition, after the interventions stopped, the rates of malaria in the groups were similar over the next year.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)