(a.) Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
(a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
(n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(2) We performed a stepwise discriminant analysis first with only casual and end exercise systolic and diastolic BP, then after introducing age, overweight (Lorentz's formula), duration of hypertension, Sokoloff index and cholesterolemia.
(3) Best correlations with casual BP are moderate (SBP: r = 0.674, DBP: r = 0.588).
(4) With significant correlation, the experimental data show the statistics of the system not to be casual and Gaussian, but chaotic and persistent, with Hurst exponent <H> approximately 0.77 and fractal dimension <D> 1.23.
(5) Specifically, 31% of adolescents did not correctly identify "not having sex" as the most effective way of preventing AIDS, and 33% believed that AIDS could be spread through casual contact.
(6) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
(7) According to the growth hormone hypothesis, elevated serum growth hormone is one casual factor in the development of diabetic angiopathy.
(8) These data indicate that the probability of transmission from infected animals to humans is extremely low and also provide supportive evidence for lack of transmission of HIV by casual contact.
(9) Even in zoos voted the best in Europe, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society has pointed out, there can be enough evidence of animals behaving abnormally, or a casual approach to culling any surplus, to avoid them or, ideally, close them down.
(10) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
(11) By means of the presentation of several cases of Stylohyoid Complex partially or totally ossified, the authors emphasize in the necessity to have in mind this diagnosis in every patient with craniofacial pains, although it is in sometimes a casual radiological finding in a asymptomatic patient.
(12) Correlations between casual BP and diurnal records are stronger in controls than in BL patients showing a lower predictive value of clinical assessment in BL patients.
(13) However if a public inquiry deems it is still necessary, I believe that the use of casual sex by undercover police may be warranted in very exceptional circumstances.
(14) Clinical parameters were age, body weight, sodium excretion (as an estimate for dietary salt intake), systolic and diastolic blood pressure at work, casual blood pressure, resting and stress blood pressure during mental stress test and physical exercise.
(15) For many decades, the casual blood pressure (BP) has been the standard for assessing BP response to antihypertensive agents in clinical trials.
(16) Oh, I felt terrible, said the barista, but I came into work – displaying the same casual attitude to the illness that has seen thousands struggle into work, or keep up social rounds, despite still being infectious.
(17) Twenty-seven adolescents with casual BP about the 50th percentile, 17 males and 10 females, matched for age, were studied as controls.
(18) A casual relationship between the two diseases could not be proven, since specific antimyeline antibodies could not be found.
(19) Subsequent work with beta-adrenergic blockade suggested that elevated casual HRs in monkeys are associated with sympathetic arousal.
(20) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.
Denoting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denote
Example Sentences:
(1) These features of the new quaternary structure, denoted Y, may therefore be representative of quaternary states that occur transiently along pathways between the normal unliganded, T, and liganded, R, hemoglobin structures.
(2) The term true mucogingival defects has been used to denote a complete absence of attached gingiva.
(3) Cross-linking of the one-to-one complex of actin and depactin with 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]-carbodiimide (EDC) generated two types of cross-linked products with slightly different apparent molecular weights, denoted as 60KU and 60KL.
(4) For now, given the group's perceived correlation with consumer confidence, consensus opinion continues to denote a sell [on the shares]."
(6) Art v II-A and Art v II-B were shown to be antigenically identical with the allergen we have formerly denoted Ag7.
(7) The Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin determinant is composed of four contiguous genes encoded on the same DNA strand and denoted lktCABD, in the order of their genetic organization.
(9) The results of treatment with LUPIDON--LUPIDON H and LUPIDON G proved to be of equal effectiveness--can be denoted as very positive because of the good or very good effects that could be observed in more than 80% of all the cases concerned.
(10) The complaint of abdominal pain requires an orderly and thorough approach because even mild or non-specific pain can denote a potentially life-threatening intra-abdominal pathology.
(11) First-set tie-break: Kyrgios* 6-5 Nadal (*denotes server): Nerves?
(12) These collective findings may signify an interesting difference in the release process in such diverse systems or denote a dissimilarity in the transport or processing of the toxin when applied into intact neurones or cells permeabilised by detergent or streptolysin.
(13) A profile showing "no concern" on all 11 factors denotes clear acceptability of the child as an implant candidate.
(14) Each allograft tissue sample was rated as to extent of pathologic changes denoting rejection and was classified accordingly.
(15) Seven morphiceptin-like peptides with the H-Tyr-Pro-Phe-Xxx-NH2 sequence, where Xxx denotes the selected amino acids (Ala, Asp, Gly, Gln, Lys, Thr and Tyr), have been synthesized.
(16) Updated at 10.26am GMT 10.21am GMT Third set: Murray* 3-6, 4-6, 3-2 Federer (*denotes server): Federer has come to the net around 35 times.
(17) While the term "isokinetics" generally denotes a type of muscular contraction which accompanies a constant rate of limb movement, periods of acceleration and deceleration exist in the context of isokinetic exercise.
(18) The presence of squamous cells in eccrine neoplasms is not well recognized, but is usually considered to denote malignant transformation.
(19) We have demonstrated in rat hepatocytes that 3H-histamine binds specifically to novel low (microM) and high (nM) affinity sites, designated "HIC" to denote their intracellular location.
(20) The other dehydratase reaction, however, is catalyzed in nature by an enzyme denoted arogenate dehydratase.