What's the difference between accident and pregnancy?

Accident


Definition:

  • (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.

Pregnancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
  • (n.) Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
  • (2) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
  • (3) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
  • (4) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
  • (5) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
  • (6) The multiple pregnancy rate was 18% and the abortion rate, 18%.
  • (7) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
  • (8) Four cases of pregnancies in two women with tricuspid atresia (TA) are described.
  • (9) Maternal diabetes and antihistamine use during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy were associated with significantly higher rates of retrolental fibroplasia, whereas toxemia was associated with lower rates.
  • (10) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
  • (11) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
  • (13) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (14) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (15) Maternal plasma levels of cortiocotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) have been measured in abnormal pregnancy states to assess their potential as biochemical markers for at-risk pregnancies.
  • (16) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
  • (17) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
  • (18) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • (19) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
  • (20) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).