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Intervention vs Interventional - What's the difference?

intervention | interventional |

As a noun intervention

is intervention (act of intervening).

As an adjective interventional is

incorporating, or characterized by, intervention.

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

    • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    interventional

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Incorporating, or characterized by, intervention
    • We conducted an interventional study.
  • (cardiology) Specializing in coronary intervention
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 6, Jane E. Brody, More Isn’t Always Better in Coronary Care, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Even some interventional cardiologists have expressed concern about the many patients without symptoms who are treated surgically. }}

    Related terms

    * interventionally