(a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance diagnosis in an aleatory sample of 81 gastric carcinomas stratified according to the participation of 14 hospitals in an epidemiological study of 354 cases and 354 controls was analyzed.
(2) All the patients who underwent implantation of an artificial urinary sphincter can have three types of complications: those coming from the own patient, mechanical complications and other aleatory ones.
(3) Systolic blood pressure (SBP) was measured by Doppler method in an aleatory sample of 251 healthy children from south-east Santiago Chile (131 females and 120 males) which were divided by age in five groups: 0 to 28 days (n = 5) 1 to 5 months (n = 48), 6 to 11 months (n = 48), 12 to 17 months (n = 46) and 18 to 24 months (n = 45).
(4) However, they point out that in standard people, the extreme differences in the morphology of their frontal pneumatization can be explained not only by various causes--a number of which is as yet not known--but also by an aleatory distribution.
(5) Beyond this period of time any recovery of normal emptying indices is more aleatory, the residual obstructive syndrome appearing to be established definitely.
(6) To carry out this work two well-trained anthropometrists obtained data of total and kneeling height, cephalic and thoracic circumference, and weight from an aleatory sample of 333 boys and girls who study at a national school in Madrid.
(7) Each prediction was accompanied by a subjective probability estimate reflecting the subjects' confidence in its accuracy--a measure validated in Study 5 by having subjects choose whether to "gamble" on the accuracy of their prediction or on the outcome of a simple aleatory event.
(8) The test of Ishihara has been used in an aleatory representative sample; and dyschromatopsic pupils, so classified in this test, have been further explored with the anomaloscopy Pickford-Nicolson, in order to know their anomaly kind and degree.
(9) The study of French Death Rate per age group, compared with either formal, discutable or aleatory indications of transplantation, is a valuable basis for that calculation.
(10) The workers were an aleatory bunch, culturally and politically offbeat, mostly would-be musicians, writers or actors, including – yes – a serious-minded young thesp who rocked the phones.
(11) We report here one example of such aleatory expression of antibody idiotypes by T lymphocytes.
(12) A mathematical analysis attempted to measure the "potential" life span (senescence process) and the degree of a superimposed aleatory destruction (consumption process).
(13) After this period, recovery from the obstructive syndrome is more aleatory and decision to continue therapy must be based on other criteria.
(14) In most of these studies, aleatory idiotype cross-reactivities have not been sufficiently considered.
(15) Samples of water and snails collected through aleatory scoops in a small dam were done to obtain data concerning the physical and chemical characteristics of the water and their possible influence on biological aspects of the life cycle of snails.
(16) In comparison with the aleatory selection of the drug, this statistical computerized choice has diminished the recurrence index (from 8 to 3) and increased the interval free of disease (from 70 to 83.5 months) in this group of patients.
(17) Immunosuppressive therapeutics (Prednisone and Aziatropine) are valued in 36 limb arteritic patients, divided in two aleatory groups.
(18) The lesions have an aleatory character and affect variously organs and territories, leading finally to insufficiency phenomena with clinical expression: renal failure, pulmonary failure, encephalopathy, shock digestive tract, intravascular disseminated coagulation, state of shock initially hyperdynamic and afterwards hypodynamic, metabolic disturbances etc.
(19) In order to know the users's degree of satisfaction in the Primary Health Care Center of Zaidin-Sur in Granada, a survey has been carried out by means of a personal interview at home in an aleatory sample of 615 individuals.
(20) Review of an aleatory sample composed by 100 patients suffering some thyroid disorder, operated at ENT Department of the Hospital, during the last 5 years.
Serendipitous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
(2) Furthermore, serendipitly we found that PIP2-PLC activity was increased in liver membranes from obese patients with type II diabetes when compared to obese and lean controls.
(3) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(4) Surprisingly and serendipitously, these studies also revealed genetic heterogeneity of the fibrillin proteins and established linkage between one of these loci and a Marfan-related disorder, congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
(5) Finally, the history of the development of understanding of the disease has been a fascinating mixture of parental concern, serendipitous discovery, and correlation of clinical syndromes and serological evaluations across continents.
(6) None of us would be here, though, if it wasn't for one serendipitous night four years ago in Stockholm.
(7) His charmed team, on salaries of about £350,000, are all getting bonuses: there's Paul Plummer, the strategy director, landing a serendipitous £59,759; Robin "fluky" Gisby, the operations director, and Simon "butter side up" Kirby, the infrastructure projects managing director, who are getting £63,708 each; and, last but not least, group finance director Patrick "the scratchcard wonder" Butcher whose Thank You for Turning Up to Work present this year is £67,658.
(8) New compounds can be discovered by screening, modification of existing compounds, rational drug design, and serendipitous basic research observations.
(9) Serendipitous findings were especially important in finding fetal anomalies.
(10) Included are one case of a "false negative" ABR in a patient with an intracanalicular acoustic neuroma, a case of a "false positive" CT scan in a patient with Meniere's disease, and a case of a patient with normal hearing in whom an acoustic neuroma was discovered serendipitously.
(11) Although the diagnosis can be made on physical examination and on plain radiography, it is important to recognize its appearance on CT since it may constitute a serendipitous finding that should be differentiated from more serious diseases that have a similar appearance.
(12) The patient serendipitously illustrates a multimodality approach to aortic dissection imaging.
(13) The major advantage of electrophysiologic studies over other forms of arrhythmia evaluation, particularly passive monitoring techniques, is the ability to detect the arrhythmia by provocative stimulation techniques, eliminating the need for serendipitous recording of a sporadic event.
(14) A serendipitous finding of tonus changes in the frog skin during nerve stimulation is also described.
(15) Every brain is different – the serendipitous product of evolution and personal experience.
(16) An additional serendipitous finding was a dissociation between two types of tongue movement: licking from a ventrally-located surface survived cortical removal but tongue protrusion did not.
(17) Sheehan's syndrome was not produced with massive hypovolemic shock but failure to obtain true pregnancy has given serendipitous information on the long-term action of norlestrin on the pituitary and its target organs.
(18) Its origin relates to a serendipitous substitution of water in the London laboratory of Sydney Ringer in the 1880s.
(19) We report a completely asymptomatic patient with normal hepatic function whose cyst was discovered serendipitously during sonogram to determine renal size.
(20) A serendipitous finding was the dissociation in time between synthesis of anti-GBM antibodies and development of proteinuria, suggesting a role for cellular effector mechanisms in the induction of proteinuria.