What's the difference between adventitious and foreign?

Adventitious


Definition:

  • (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
  • (a.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
  • (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
  • (a.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several in vitro transcripts both larger and smaller than the authentic transcript were seen; presumably, these transcripts result from adventitious promoterlike elements in adjacent chlamydial DNA and may be responsible for the expression of the gene in E. coli.
  • (2) Initial acceleration of the DRL responding appeared to be due to adventitious punishment of collateral behavior which was observed between the bar-presses.
  • (3) These findings suggest that adventitial mast cells may potentiate atherosclerosis and vasospasm, thrombosis and premature sudden death in long-term cocaine abusers.
  • (4) By studying the kinetics of urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis during application of hydrodynamic shear under varying chemical environments, we demonstrate that micromolar quantities of metal ions, in this case adventitious Fe, can accelerate the oxidation of thiol groups on urease and thus inactivate it when the protein is subjected to a shearing stress of order 1.0 Pa.
  • (5) A marked reduction in the area covered by adventitial cells was recorded coinciding with the early reticulocyte response to phlebotomy.
  • (6) The use of established genetically engineered cultures in the production of biologicals for human use requires that these cultures be monitored for adventitious viral agents.
  • (7) 11.30am: Those playing "Leveson bingo" with Robert Jay QC 's florid language might like to note that he has so far used the word "adventitious" .
  • (8) The extent of marrow sinus wall coverage by perisinal adventitial cells was measured before and after removing 25% of the calculated blood volume in rabbits.
  • (9) Endothelial damage reduced sensitivity and response asymmetry to luminal and adventitial adenosine.
  • (10) The invention in 1819 of the stethoscope by Laënnec was followed by the first classification of pulmonary adventitial sounds.
  • (11) The soaked embryonic shoots formed new apical buds, with or without bud scales, adventitious dwarf needles or shoots, and root- and embryo-like structures.
  • (12) The histological findings failed to reveal significant differences in either thoracic or abdominal aneurysms with or without marked adventitial fibrosis.
  • (13) The greatest amount of nerves at all stages of human development occurs in the adventitial plexuses of the thyroid arteries; they are less numerous in the plexus of the splenic artery, and their minimal amount is noted in the plexus of the brachial artery.
  • (14) In method 2, 72% of the balloon-denuded patent arteries with intact adventitial vasa vasorum were partially re-endothelialized at 4 weeks and 84% at 8 weeks.
  • (15) This uptake appears to occur primarily in the muscle layers adjacent to the lumen, suggesting that the muscle cells of the luminal side function differently from those from the adventitial side.
  • (16) Adventitious effects, purposeful lenticular changes and adaptations in response to environmental forces are reviewed as possible sources of this astigmatic variability.
  • (17) The porphyrins have two important roles in photobiology: in photosynthesis, which has evolved and is highly organized morphologically; and in the photodynamic effect, which is adventitious.
  • (18) Intimal hyperplasia was observed in both groups, but the grafts in the hypertensive groups showed increased adventitial and medial fibrosis and a reduced number of vasa vasora.
  • (19) It was found that: the average maximum residual intimal engineering strain in the uncut configuration was -0.082 for all nine aortas and -0.096 and -0.077 for the bovine and porcine aortas alone, respectively; the average maximum residual adventitial strain was 0.085 for all aortas, and 0.102 and 0.078 for the bovine and porcine aortas alone, respectively; an estimated average beneficial compressive stress of -0.188 X 10(5) Pa (corresponding to a strain level of -0.082) is available at the intimal level to counteract the in vivo tensile stress due to the intravascular pressure; an estimated average initial tensile stress of 0.195 X 10(5) Pa (corresponding to a strain level of 0.085) exists at the adventitial level which adds to the in vivo tensile stress due to the intravascular pressure.
  • (20) Fluorescence histochemistry shows that helicine arteries are provided with an extremely dense network of adrenergic nerves located at the medio-adventitial border.

Foreign


Definition:

  • (a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
  • (a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
  • (a.) Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
  • (a.) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
  • (3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (4) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
  • (5) Foreign antigens conjugated to alpha-2-Macroglobulin (alpha-2-M) were effectively taken up by murine macrophages via alpha-2-M receptors.
  • (6) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
  • (8) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (9) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
  • (10) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (12) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (13) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
  • (14) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
  • (15) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
  • (16) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
  • (17) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
  • (18) Glutathione (GSH) plays a primary role in protecting cells from oxidative stress and in detoxifying foreign compounds.
  • (19) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (20) "We know that a country has tipped when local-to-local connections outnumber local to foreign," he added.

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