(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.
Relaxing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relax
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
(10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
(12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.