(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.
Prearranged
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Health Maintenance Organizations are defined by the following characteristics: 1) they are total health care delivery systems; 2) they consist of a voluntarily enrolled population; 3) agreed-upon services are provided by a prearranged and prepaid fee; and 4) the organizations bear the risk of providing the services for the prearranged fee.
(3) Blood samples were collected by femoral vein puncture with light anesthesia under prearranged schedule and were assayed for LH-RH, LH, estrogen and progestin.
(4) Angela Merkel's spokesman said a prearranged meeting was taking place, but it had nothing to do with the idea that Greece would leave the euro.
(5) Insiders at News Corp, which last week disclosed the phone-hacking scandal had so far cost it almost $200m, maintain it is a prearranged visit that has nothing to do with the latest allegations dogging Murdoch's newspaper interests.
(6) Without minimizing the demonstrated effectiveness of short-term therapies, we propose that setting prearranged time limits be either replaced or supplemented by the implementation of a "time limited attitude."
(7) Making a regular, prearranged appearance before the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) , which oversees the force, Stephenson conceded again that he had "got it wrong" on the first student protest a fortnight ago when fewer than 250 officers were overwhelmed by a crowd of more than 50,000, some of whom stormed the office building containing the Conservative party headquarters.
(8) At a prearranged press conference Cameron and Clegg tried to draw a line under the episode by chiding Cable, saying he had been right to be embarrassed and to apologise.
(9) He denied it, brushed it off, claimed it was a prearranged gift and got away with it.
(10) Neoadjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy followed by partial cystectomy should be the most applicable conservative therapy with high radicality for invasive bladder cancer, when: 1) the patient has localized invasive cancer showing good response (greater than or equal to PR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 2) the tumor is stage T3a or less and without findings of tentacular invasion (INF gamma) by pre-operative biopsy, and 3) pre-operative multiple biopsy is performed as deeply as possible along the prearranged incision line.
(11) Spontaneity and deviation from prearranged plans was featured in many of the accidents.
(12) We have the setting and the instrument, both of which exist naturally and without any prearranged orchestration.
(13) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(14) Uranium Registry (USUR) Case 1001] had prearranged for donation of her body to the USUR and the National Cancer Institute for study.
(15) 27 patients were seen at a prearranged outpatient clinic 10 to 15 years after the last operation.
(16) One hundred and eighty-eight anesthesiologists were tested to compare the number of prearranged anesthesia machine faults that could be detected with 1) their own checkout methods and 2) the FDA checklist.
(17) But the members of the ISC are appointed by the prime minister and not by parliament, and there was criticism when it emerged after the hearing that the questions asked had been prearranged with the security chiefs.
(18) Group III received the same dose schedule of prostaglandin after intracervical laminaria tents had been inserted, and prochlorperazine and Lomotil were administered by the prearranged dose schedule.
(19) Information about emergency equipment, prearranged emergency plans, advanced life support training, and emergency medical services assistance was elicited.
(20) Home visiting often achieves much more than prearranged hospital or clinic appointments which are often not kept.