See Also: Interrupted(medicine)
interrupted(dictionary)
interrupted respiration(medicine)
interrupted suture(medicine)
azygos continuation of interrupted ivc(medicine)

interrupted (iou)



interrupted adjective. M16.
[from INTERRUPT verb + -ED1.]
That has been interrupted. M16.
Botany. Of an inflorescence etc.: divided by intervals of bare axis; discontinuous. Of a pinnate leaf: having smaller leaflets interposed between the main leaflets. M19.
Special collocations: interrupted cadence Music: where the penultimate dominant chord is followed not by the expected chord of the tonic but by another, usu. that of the submediant. interrupted screw: with part of its thread cut away.
interruptedly adverb M17.