What's the difference between accidental and occidental?

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.

Occidental


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
  • (a.) Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the majority of cases the intelligence is preserved, which comprises the classic "occidental" (type 1) form.
  • (2) At the beginning of his career, Moreno as Freud, found himself in a transcultural position which allowed him to better observe the "classical occidental individual" captive of his stereotypal "Tinned culture".
  • (3) Oriental populations differed in that the scatter in red cell enzyme activity was significantly lower than in Occidental populations.
  • (4) These findings suggest the existence of an intermediate form of CMD between the Fukuyama type of CMD and the classical occidental type of CMD.
  • (5) A controlled field trial of the effectiveness of various doses of cholera El Tor vaccine was organized in Negros Occidental Province, an area of endemic cholera in the Philippines, in 1966 and 1967, on 359 600 volunteers.
  • (6) On a no treatment trial, a group of 24 oriental subjects rated cold pressor pain as significantly more painful and distressing than did a group of 24 occidental subjects.
  • (7) The median and mean age were significantly higher in the Occidental Jewish group.
  • (8) Its creative power and its primateship for the word is clarified by a selection of examples from oriental and occidental cultures.
  • (9) Incidence and mortality data on breast cancer in females from various Occidental (Western) and Japanese populations were analyzed.
  • (10) Occidental contributed only $25,000 in 2011, $12,500 in 2012 and $2,500 in 2013,” the board wrote.
  • (11) Authors present a prospective study of 130 cases of Mediterranean spotted fever treated between 1983 and 1985 in two Departments of Paediatrics of the Valles Occidental, area near Barcelona.
  • (12) According to our clinical observations from various aspects of stroke patients, such as the total incidence of aphasia, the incidence of aphasia after left brain damage of the dextrals, the aphasia that occurs in patients without hemiplegia, and the types of aphasia, a much higher incidence of crossed aphasia is seen among the stroke patients of the Han (the largest ethnic group in China) as compared with the Uighur-Kazaks (U-K) in China and the Occidentals documented in the literature.
  • (13) The remaining 12 Orientals and 12 Occidentals served as no treatment controls on trial 2.
  • (14) The signet-ring cell carcinoma of the bladder is a rare variant of mucus-producing vesical adenocarcinoma: sixteen cases have been reported in the Occidental and two other cases in Japanese literature.
  • (15) By photographing lesser known Occidental 15th to 18th century rare books on pulse readings from the New York Academy of Medicine and the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, a clearer understanding of Oriental influences to Occidental cardio-vascular understanding is apparent.
  • (16) Far Eastern culture is based on the clan whereas occidental culture is based on the self.
  • (17) The author scrutinizes a text taken from the law of Justinian, 553 A. D., which assigns the Jews a place in the occidental-Christian system of thought.
  • (18) Earlier this month, shareholders overcame management opposition to similar proposals at Occidental Petroleum and PPL, a large utility holding company, and passed resolutions forcing the companies to more clearly explain how climate change could affect their businesses.
  • (19) From May 1964 to December 1965, a controlled field trial of the effectiveness of cholera and cholera El Tor vaccines was conducted in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
  • (20) These two cases are compared with 116 cases previously published in the occidental medical literature and with five histomorphometric studies demonstrating increased bone trabecula volume (BTV).