Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to intervention: "interventional" describes something that is involved in or characterized by intervention, especially in a medical or procedural context where action is taken to alter a course of events or treat a condition.

Usage Examples

• (A medical action taken to directly treat the blockage.)
• (A field of medicine involving targeted procedures.)

Advanced Usage

• "Interventional cardiology": a subspecialty of cardiology dealing with catheter-based treatments of heart diseases.

  • He was referred to interventional cardiology for a stent placement. (A specific branch of medicine using procedures to open narrowed blood vessels.)

• "Interventional study": a type of research where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions to evaluate their effects.

  • The interventional study tested a new drug's efficacy against a placebo. (A controlled clinical trial with active treatment.)

Variants and Related Words

• Intervention (n): the act of intervening, especially to improve a situation or prevent harm.

  • Early intervention can prevent the disease from worsening. (Timely action to address a problem.)

• Intervene (v): to come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events.

  • The teacher had to intervene in the argument between students. (To step in and mediate.)

Synonyms

• Procedural: relating to a series of actions conducted in a certain order.
• Therapeutic: having healing or curative properties.

Related Idioms

• "Step in": to become involved in a situation to help or stop something.
  • The manager had to step in to resolve the conflict. (To intervene directly.)

Phrasal Verbs

• Intervene in: to become involved in something to change its outcome.
  • The government decided to intervene in the economic crisis. (To take action to influence events.)