What's the difference between casus and periculum?
Casus
Definition:
(n.) An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the light of six self-reported observations an account is given on the pathomorphology and pathohistology of the arteria primitiva trigemina including morphological changes of neighbouring organs and tissue structures as well as of the brain which are directly casused by the anastomosis.
(2) The casus, here mentioned, has an anastomosis overmore.
(3) There is a spectrum of options falling well short of total closure; forms of harassment of the oil trade that would drive the price of crude up and keep it up, very much to Iran's benefit, but fall short of a casus belli for war.
(4) Estrogen casuses changes to take place in the muscle and connective tissue of the cervix.
(5) "But doesn't it all look a little bit trivial in a week when a brutal Islamist militia took control of much of northern Iraq, openly confounding the "casus belli" for which the British military lost 179 lives and the US forces 4,489, and in which more than 100,000 Iraqis died?"
(6) And there was the unwinding of the WMD affair, the supposedly real but entirely imaginary casus belli.
(7) And to make matters worse, land was the casus belli of the 15-year bush war which Mugabe led, and had dominated decolonisation talks at Lancaster House on the last quarter of 1979.
(8) Khartoum "continues a pattern of sustained, intense and destructive economic warfare against the south … The purpose is not only to destabilise the south but to provoke actual military confrontation and create a casus belli for a new war," he said.
(9) This is "lower Gaza" and Israel's casus belli : a secret labyrinth of tunnels and bunkers, painstakingly built by Hamas over recent years at enormous cost.
(10) All these casuses of an angiotensin-renin mechanism given in general the indication for operative procedure.
(11) Lowering extracellular pH from 7.4 to 6.7 in a bathing solution buffered with 10 mM histidine did not alter the resting membrane potential or action potential characteristics but casused slight reduction in propagation velocity.
(12) Each spike of a forewing stretch receptor casuses an EPSP in ipsilateral mesothoracic depressor motoneurones and an IPSP in elevators.
(13) A casus of so-called nodular mesenteric pseudoxanthomatosis (Schaefer) was investigated by a 73 years old woman.
(14) But if the state is resolved to magnify these underlying tensions into a casus belli, it is easily, as Milosevic proved, accomplished.
(15) For stop-flow conditions: (i) enchancement of total vascular resistance is due to an increase in the passive resistance of the postglomerular vessels; (ii) afferent resistance drops to minimal values as casused by the relaxation of the corresponding arterioles; (iii) autoregualation is abolished: pressure-flow relations are linear over the entire arterial pressure range examined.
(16) Khamenei and other leaders have indicated that such an outcome would amount to a casus belli .
(17) A model given in graphs is compared with empiric material from a typical casus, which could be shown with its prodrom and some weeks of its course.
Periculum
Definition:
(n.) Danger; risk.
(n.) In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.