What's the difference between detached and nonchalant?

Detached


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Detach
  • (a.) Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
  • (2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
  • (3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
  • (4) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
  • (5) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
  • (6) The yield of such studies may be high for an understanding of such diseases as myopia, retinal detachment, and keratoconus.
  • (7) A large exudative retinal detachment and hypopyon developed in one eye, and cultures from the anterior chamber aspirate grew CMV.
  • (8) The results are discussed in the light of the pathophysiological changes following retinal detachment including detachment of the macular area.
  • (9) The perfluoropropane gas was used as an adjunct to vitreoretinal microsurgery in 60 eyes of 60 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
  • (10) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
  • (11) Retinal Pigment epithelial tears have been well documented as a complication of pigment epithelial detachment in patients with age related macular degeneration.
  • (12) On examination by cholangiography at 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks after the initial laparotomy, no significant cholangiectasis was found in dogs subjected to either cholecystectomy alone or to detachment of the surrounding tissue alone.
  • (13) At the acute stage, hypotonia and exudative retinal detachment were found.
  • (14) Cells were synchronized by selective detachment of cells blocked in metaphase using colcemid.
  • (15) The authors have treated seven patients by using percutaneous placement of a detachable balloon to occlude a pseudoaneurysm of an upper extremity graft.
  • (16) The clinical features and results of surgical management of 68 out of a series of 101 cases of traumatic retinal detachment in childhood are described and analysed.
  • (17) In 17 cases of recurrent retinal tears occurring after successful retinal detachment surgery, the new tears developed on or near the treated primary tear in seven cases and away from the treated tear in ten cases.
  • (18) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
  • (19) It was also recorded that patients with edematous fibroplastic process in the central zone accompanied by vitreoretinal tractions often develop equatorial dystrophies, this being a risk factor of retinal detachment.
  • (20) Associated features were severe blunt or penetrating injury, total retinal detachment, surbretinal proteinaceous exudate, and concomitant presence of preretinal fibrocellular or fibrovascular proliferations.

Nonchalant


Definition:

  • (a.) Indifferent; careless; cool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (3) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
  • (4) In interviews during the Star Wars years, Fisher affected nonchalance about that break-up.
  • (5) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.
  • (6) Early in the second half, Rivera, with a splendid burst of individualism, flicked the ball over his head to beat one man, accelerated past two more, and sent a superb shot which the little goalkeeper almost nonchalantly fisted over the top.
  • (7) The concert has been long prepared, Josh and his friend Ahmed from the perilous estates nearby laying tracks to "Jessie Wright" and another song for Agnes – "a tribute to a girl got shot in Hoxton", Josh says, with apparent nonchalance, but a stab of sorrowful anger in his eye.
  • (8) And the streets of Athens looked like Glastonbury – minus the mud; plus the teargas … Standing in London's Greek heartland, I feel a curious detachment, a curious out-of-body nonchalance that people also describe when they're remembering a car crash.
  • (9) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
  • (10) She was characterised by her very specific sense of failure, which was rueful but nonchalant at the same time: Pearson's iconic image had Kate Reddy smashing up shop-bought mince pies to make them look as though she'd made them herself.
  • (11) As Glastonbury virgins, they treated the world's biggest festival with the same nonchalant naivety with which they'd conducted their entire career, and with the added issues of an enormous crowd and 2007's ultra-sensitive perimeter sound limiters, it made for a distant and underwhelming experience.
  • (12) It hardly needs saying how rare this is in an industry where interviewees, generally, come wobbling  at you like carnival floats, the girls with a small army of wardrobe support staff and the boys trembling from the effort of looking nonchalant in their duds.
  • (13) She stayed with my eldest daughter until I had moved house, and is now back here doing her thing, all emerald eyes and feline nonchalance.
  • (14) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
  • (15) Given how perfect Ford’s nonchalant swagger works for the character, it seems criminal that there was ever any other option.
  • (16) I climbed too fast for vertigo to strike, scissored my legs over the railings, dropped on to concrete, rolled, picked myself up, then endeavoured to walk across the neatly trimmed lawn with a nonchalant air.
  • (17) This bullish assurance is bookended by Okoye's studied nonchalance.
  • (18) For extra kudos, hold court with the argument that the avant-bland looks on the catwalk are the natural extension of how Phoebe Philo, current queen of catwalk cool, has made the tradition of giving artistic and retro references to a collection look old hat by her habit of shrugging nonchalantly and insisting the clothes she designs are just, y'know, stuff she wants to wear.
  • (19) Of course it’s nice to be up 1-0 and not 0-1, but we didn’t play that well and we’re going to have to do it much, much better on Sunday … they are more athletic than us and stronger than us.” Recovered from an ankle injury, Spurs guard Tony Parker contributed 19 points and reacted to questions about the heat with nonchalance.
  • (20) Yet no matter how many people are bellowing at him, Lansley perpetually wears the nonchalant expression of a man killing time by humming cheerfully in a lift.