(n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
(n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
(n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
(n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
(n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
(n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
(n.) Unusual appearance or effect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(2) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(3) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(4) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(5) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
(6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(7) The risk of postoperative cerebrovascular accident did not correlate with age, sex, history of multiple cerebrovascular accidents, poststroke transient ischemic attacks, American Society for Anesthesia physical status, aspirin use, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, intraoperative blood pressure, time since previous cerebrovascular accident, or cause of previous cerebrovascular accident.
(8) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
(9) These episodes are capable of precipitating accidents.
(10) A retrospective review of 1900 road accident victims attending the emergency departments of two Melbourne hospitals was undertaken to identify Injury Severity Score levels which could distinguish between minor, moderate, severe and critical injury.
(11) During the follow-up period 4 patients in group I had an embolic accident, as against none of the group II patients (p less than 0.01); 3 of these 4 patients had persistent uptake at control scintigraphy.
(12) The positive effect of early medical care was established through the variations of injury severity indices currently used in polytrauma: after the institution of Mobile Intensive Care Medical Units on the site of accidents cardiac arrests were ten times less numerous although lesions were more serious in the second series.
(13) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
(14) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
(15) The possibility that autotransplantation may also occur in humans by accident, during procedures to remove a colorectal adenocarcinoma, is discussed.
(16) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
(17) The paper is concerned with analysis of correlation of the time of appearance of vomit in a person and a mean dose rate of prolonged gamma-radiation in the persons affected at the Chernobyl accident.
(18) Her general condition deteriorated continuously and 10 months after the accident she had to be admitted to a hospital again.
(19) Votey set out the basic principles of costs and benefits as applied to accident control measures and discussed the various elements of effective economic analysis.
(20) The doses were calculated as average monthly doses for each of 454 municipalities during 36 consecutive months after the accident in spring 1986.
Casus
Definition:
(n.) An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the light of six self-reported observations an account is given on the pathomorphology and pathohistology of the arteria primitiva trigemina including morphological changes of neighbouring organs and tissue structures as well as of the brain which are directly casused by the anastomosis.
(2) The casus, here mentioned, has an anastomosis overmore.
(3) There is a spectrum of options falling well short of total closure; forms of harassment of the oil trade that would drive the price of crude up and keep it up, very much to Iran's benefit, but fall short of a casus belli for war.
(4) Estrogen casuses changes to take place in the muscle and connective tissue of the cervix.
(5) "But doesn't it all look a little bit trivial in a week when a brutal Islamist militia took control of much of northern Iraq, openly confounding the "casus belli" for which the British military lost 179 lives and the US forces 4,489, and in which more than 100,000 Iraqis died?"
(6) And there was the unwinding of the WMD affair, the supposedly real but entirely imaginary casus belli.
(7) And to make matters worse, land was the casus belli of the 15-year bush war which Mugabe led, and had dominated decolonisation talks at Lancaster House on the last quarter of 1979.
(8) Khartoum "continues a pattern of sustained, intense and destructive economic warfare against the south … The purpose is not only to destabilise the south but to provoke actual military confrontation and create a casus belli for a new war," he said.
(9) This is "lower Gaza" and Israel's casus belli : a secret labyrinth of tunnels and bunkers, painstakingly built by Hamas over recent years at enormous cost.
(10) All these casuses of an angiotensin-renin mechanism given in general the indication for operative procedure.
(11) Lowering extracellular pH from 7.4 to 6.7 in a bathing solution buffered with 10 mM histidine did not alter the resting membrane potential or action potential characteristics but casused slight reduction in propagation velocity.
(12) Each spike of a forewing stretch receptor casuses an EPSP in ipsilateral mesothoracic depressor motoneurones and an IPSP in elevators.
(13) A casus of so-called nodular mesenteric pseudoxanthomatosis (Schaefer) was investigated by a 73 years old woman.
(14) But if the state is resolved to magnify these underlying tensions into a casus belli, it is easily, as Milosevic proved, accomplished.
(15) For stop-flow conditions: (i) enchancement of total vascular resistance is due to an increase in the passive resistance of the postglomerular vessels; (ii) afferent resistance drops to minimal values as casused by the relaxation of the corresponding arterioles; (iii) autoregualation is abolished: pressure-flow relations are linear over the entire arterial pressure range examined.
(16) Khamenei and other leaders have indicated that such an outcome would amount to a casus belli .
(17) A model given in graphs is compared with empiric material from a typical casus, which could be shown with its prodrom and some weeks of its course.