What's the difference between accidental and misadventure?

Accidental


Definition:

  • (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.

Misadventure


Definition:

  • (n.) Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
  • (2) The addition of epidemiologic analysis of risk factors for therapeutic misadventure (iatrogenic and self-induced) and for health status specific long- and short-term adverse drug experience will contribute substantially to drug safety in the elderly.
  • (3) Studies conducted in the United States during the past two decades related to drug misadventuring have been inadequate.
  • (4) Sloane Crosley's books, although different in tone to those of Gould and Daum – she self-mockingly writes of her own comic misadventures in a manner heavily influenced by David Sedaris – share a similar aspiration.
  • (5) Is the song Mile High about narcotic misadventures or misdemeanours on an aircraft?
  • (6) An original MoD inquest was held in secret in 1953 and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
  • (7) This study seeks to increase awareness of poison center ability to assist in management of the "therapeutic misadventure".
  • (8) Mechanism of injury included knife or arrow penetrations (25), firearm wounds (12), falls (17), overexertion (5), and misadventures with hazards (40).
  • (9) Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury.
  • (10) Twenty-eight ovaries from normal children of the same age who died from misadventure served as control.
  • (11) Some local cases are cited to illustrate the difference between misadventure and negligence.
  • (12) Drug misadventuring is defined, applicable public policy issues are identified and analyzed, and recommendations are suggested for reducing the magnitude and scope of drug misadventuring.
  • (13) The patient's family supposed neglection and therapeutic misadventure and raised an objection to the medical treatment.
  • (14) In England and Wales, 13% of maternal deaths were related to anaesthetic misadventures, but the Japanese incidence is not known.
  • (15) It appears that post-prostatectomy incontinence is not always due to a surgical misadventure.
  • (16) Yet by claiming the intervention was mostly about rooting out terrorists, Cameron also ignores or misunderstands, and certainly diminishes, the few, possibly temporary nation-building achievements Britain can point to during its latest, sorry misadventure in Afghanistan.
  • (17) Therapeutic misadventures with both drugs have resulted in childhood fatalities.
  • (18) The probable causes of these deaths include prenatal physiological handicaps resulting from placental insufficiency, aberrant parent-offspring behaviour, management-induced mismothering, misadventure, inadequate milk supply or teat and udder abnormalities, and cold-induced starvation.
  • (19) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
  • (20) But it did not take a Gray diary - although a particularly brilliant one, Fat Chance (1995), did eventually materialise - for the off-stage shenanigans and misadventures surrounding Gray's 1995 play, Cell Mates, to make the front pages.