(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.
Inveterate
Definition:
(a.) Old; long-established.
(a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
(a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
(a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
(v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is noteworthy that intracardiac evaluation is necessary when there is longstanding and inveterate tachyarrhythmia in otherwise healthy children.
(2) Graham, an inveterate jokester, slightly undermined the moment by joking shortly afterwards: “I feel like I’m on Oprah.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lindsey Graham wipes away tears while speaking at the Family Leadership Summit.
(3) Authors describe the operative method of Iselin for the treatment of inveterated extensor tendon injuries over the DIP joint and their results.
(4) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(5) The Man Who Can't Keep His Clothes On ( Thursday, 10pm, C4 ) catalogues his achievements while following this inveterate attention-seeker as he plans his testicular swan song.
(6) Cyril Smith , the late Liberal MP, accused since his death in 2010 of being an inveterate child abuser, was said to visit the property.
(7) It is the authors' opinion that, taking into account the late results following operative reduction of inveterate femoral dislocation, the operation of arthrodesis of the coxa is felt to be more rational in such cases.
(8) What the authors mean by locked dislocation of the shoulder is an inveterate posterior dislocation of the humeral head which remains locked within the glenoid cavity as a result of anatomopathological lesion.
(9) This action may prove of value in the treatment of ulcer patients who are inveterate smokers, alcohol users or who are compelled to consume non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain relief from rheumatic and allied diseases.
(10) This method has been used in the complex treatment of 12 patients with acute and inveterate injuries of the thoracic and the thoracolumbar departments of the spinal column and of the spine.
(11) Correction osteotomy of the bones of both forearms with excision of the radial head is recommended for inveterate cases.
(12) This technique, based on transganglionic regulation--a novel neurobiological principle discovered by Csillik and Knyihár-Csillik-, alleviated pain in both fresh and inveterated PHN cases.
(13) Personally, I’ll believe we’re getting somewhere when Channel 4 puts on Corporate-Benefits Street – with White Dee replaced by Amazon founder and inveterate tax-dodger Jeff Bezos.
(14) The authors report 9 cases of acetabular fracture, 6 recent complex and 3 inveterate, treated surgically through the lateral incision of Letournel.
(15) A tall, well-built man with an imposing physical presence, Sherrin was an inveterate first-nighter, always enjoying a couple of stiff Martinis before the show and a good supper afterwards.
(16) A chronic slip of the upper femoral epiphysis (also called by the authors inveterate epiphysiolysis) is a rare, but not an extremely rare, occurrence.
(17) The number of daily cigarettes consumed by inveterate smokers is considerably and lastingly reduced, and 27 p. cent of the patients quit smoking.
(18) Nevertheless, the high incidence of often serious complications makes the combined anterior-posterior approach preferable for severe inveterate fractures of the acetabulum.
(19) The authors present an analysis of the results of operative treatment for inveterate femoral dislocations in 13 patients, in 6 of them open reduction of the dislocation was performed, in 6--arthrodesis of the coxa, in 1--subtrochanteric osteotomy.
(20) In a 25-year-old female patient with right-sided adnex tumour and inveterate infection on the urinary tract a benign cystic teratoma (dermoid cyst) perforated into the lumen of the urinary bladder could diagnosed cystoscopically.