(a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
(a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
(n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
(n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
(n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
(2) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(3) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(4) Accidental injury is the leading cause of death in persons between the ages of 1 and 50 years in our Western society.
(5) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(6) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(7) The time of insertion had no effect on the rate of accidental pregnancy (p less than .05).
(8) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(9) Doctors refuse to discharge 'Baby Asha' because of fears for safety on Nauru Read more It’s understood the baby girl, who is about a year old and is known as Asha, suffered burns when boiling water was accidentally spilt on her on Nauru.
(10) Early charcoal administration may be of value therefore in reducing the toxicity of mefenamic acid after deliberate or accidental overdosage.
(11) The gastrostomy catheter can be easily removed when treatment is ended and conveniently replaced if accidentally dislodged.
(12) Rapid heart beat was found accidentally by auscultation.
(13) This study analyzes data on accidental falls for those aged 65 and older.
(14) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(15) A deformed hip joint which was accidentally found in a test pig is described.
(16) Nonfatal complications specifically related to splenectomy occurred in 15 per cent of patients with multi-organ injury and in 18 per cent of patients with incidental-accidental splenic removal.
(17) It is concluded that, from the individual's perspective, the influence of situational factors means that part of his consumption is determined by more or less accidental circumstances like the opportunities to drink, the size of the drinking group and group pressure.
(18) But it would be also thinkable that it is an accidental combination of diseases, the number of which increases at growing age.
(19) Active Surveillance decreases the possibility of misidentifying abuse related deaths as accidental, and allows state agencies to follow abuse fatalities, collecting pertinent information and adjusting policy accordingly.
(20) The atherosclerotic involvement of coronary branch vessels (first diagonal, first septal, posterior descending, left and right marginals, conus and the vessels supplying the conduction system) was investigated in 450 apparently healthy subjects aged 11-55 years who died of accidental causes.
Foreseen
Definition:
(p. p.) Provided; in case that; on condition that.
Example Sentences:
(1) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
(2) How many would have foreseen a national conversation – in public and in private – that revolves around the three Rs: renovation, recipes and resorts?
(3) With further research, it is foreseen that this questionnaire may be used by occupational therapists as a part of a screening interview for identifying mothers who may be at risk for failure to provide adequate sensory experiences for their children.
(4) Still, some economists suggest that if the Fed could have foreseen what has ensued in the weeks since it raised rates, it might have reconsidered.
(5) Clinical evaluations were foreseen every 3 months, while endoscopy and hematology, gastrin plasma levels and intra-ocular pressure assessment at the end of the 6th and 12th month.
(6) The natural history of the tumour which includes the growth patterns, the growth rate and the tendency to metastasize may influence the choice of the surgical procedure; surgical intervention might be more or less extensive than previously foreseen.
(7) Hall's work developed in other ways, too, that could not be foreseen back in 1963.
(8) -in the second case, poor indications for selective intubation of the left main bronchus by left upper lobectomy initially foreseen, whereas pneumonectomy was necessary, hypoventilation, anoxia, cardiac inefficacy.
(9) But it was an outcome he could never have foreseen on that summer's night in 1961, as he wandered through the Cliveden gardens towards his place in history.
(10) Few new drugs are available or foreseen for the near future, mefloquine and artemisinine being the leading contenders.
(11) It is foreseen that in the next years the systems for aided decision making will be programmed making use of methods belonging to both categories, and particularly, the expert systems will be planned using both artificial intelligence techniques and mathematical and statistical methods.
(12) Khan could not have foreseen that his own death would mark a turning point, as ordinary citizens finally accepted that a disease that felled one of the country’s most admired doctors had to be real.
(13) Routine use of this technique is not at present foreseen due to the complicated and time consuming nature of the procedure.
(14) On the basis of the revision of the anatomy of this region and looking forward to a widespread use of the Cavitron in neurosurgery, a more radical approach to this lesion is foreseen.
(15) The availability of these new compounds has allowed a better understanding of the selective physiological role of each of the metabolites of testosterone, and to provide the basis for the development of new hormone antagonists to be used in those clinical conditions for which an inhibition of the actions of testosterone is foreseen.
(16) With greater understanding of underlying mechanisms many of the untoward interactions now being increasingly reported might be foreseen and avoided.
(17) So, for example, they want the business cycles that are an inherent affliction of capitalism to be foreseen, planned for, minimized and overcome by government intervention.
(18) Lynn's friends say it would have been beyond her comprehension, having expressed her wishes so clearly and her admiration and love for her parents so fervently, to have foreseen that the mother who tended to her every need for the 17 years of her illness, would be prosecuted for following her wishes and helping her to die.
(19) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(20) Describing himself as disappointed but "entirely unsurprised" by results coming in, Mandelson said: "Nobody could have foreseen the extent to which the whole vote over the last 24 hours has become a referendum on the Liberal Democrats in general, and Nick Clegg in particular."