Provocation vs Perturbation - What's the difference?
provocation | perturbation | Synonyms |
The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
Something that provokes; a provocative act
(emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
(uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed
(countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)
(countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies
Provocation is a synonym of perturbation.
As nouns the difference between provocation and perturbation
is that provocation is the act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something while perturbation is (uncountable) agitation; the state of being perturbed.provocation
English
(wikipedia provocation)Noun
(en noun)- When it's time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.