What's the difference between fortition and fortuitous?

Fortition


Definition:

  • (n.) Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.

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Fortuitous


Definition:

  • (a.) Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
  • (a.) Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fortuitous withdrawal of therapy and transplant nephrectomy may have been responsible for the patient's survival.
  • (2) Two major facilities of the Western Division of Dow Chemical USA are located fortuitously within an area covered by the population-based California Tumor Registry, which allowed linkage of records to identify incident cancers among 1,403 male workers.
  • (3) The unusual activity of IM effector preparations against HLA-mismatched LCLs arises from fortuitous cross-recognition of allogeneic cells by immunologically specific cytotoxic T cell clones coincidentally expanded in vivo alongside the EBV-specific response.
  • (4) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
  • (5) Because of this phenomenon it is difficult to distinguish whether a given protein's presence in bone is advantageous or merely fortuitous.
  • (6) The enhanced transposition frequency of Tn917-LTV1 and Tn917-LTV3 (about 100-fold in Bacillus subtilis) is believed to be due to the fortuitous placement of vector-derived promoters upstream from the Tn917 transposase gene.
  • (7) According to their different clinical presentations, patients were divided into 4 groups: 1: Documented cancer, 2: Hepatic cirrhosis, 3: Fortuitous ultrasonic detection, 4: Clinical hepatic tumor.
  • (8) The article describes a way to estimate the probability of the clustering being fortuitous.
  • (9) The age correlation was caused only by an attenuated response in the young subjects below 40 years of age and may be fortuitous.
  • (10) The somewhat fortuitous isolation of Nocardia asteroides and its significance are discussed.
  • (11) However, it seems that the reduced incidence of the AUV discovered by a few Italian authors is not fortuitous (genetic factors?
  • (12) It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
  • (13) Endobronchial localizations of the granular cell tumours or Abrikossoff's tumour are very rare (6%) but their association with malignant tumours is exceptional and perhaps fortuitous.
  • (14) These T-ALLs may represent a fortuitous transformation of T cell subsets with alternative T3-Ti complexes.
  • (15) Gender identity change in a conservatively diagnosed 21-year-old transexual after faith healing was fortuitously observed, was objectively and independently measured, and is reported.
  • (16) Although the pathogenesis remains unclear, three possible explanations are suggested: disturbance of the pluripotent stem cell resulting in a combined myeloplasmatic disorder, coexistence of two diseases, or a fortuitous association.
  • (17) This tumour was discovered in a systematic fashion in 8 of the 10 cases and fortuitously in one.
  • (18) In addition, we found, fortuitously, that the ligated DNA circles could also integrate by homologous recombination, although usually at a much lower frequency than the Int-mediated integration into attB.
  • (19) Their coexistence in our patient, although the statistic probability is very low, seems to be a fortuitous coincidence more than the result of a common genetic and pathogenetic mechanism.
  • (20) It is not known whether the conversion of a portion of S5 to S5a is physiological or fortuitous.

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