(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.
Hap
Definition:
(v. t.) To clothe; to wrap.
(n.) A cloak or plaid.
(n.) That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.
(v. i.) To happen; to befall; to chance.
Example Sentences:
(1) And HAP has shown that the key finding that debt slows growth was driven overwhelmingly by the exclusion of four years of data from New Zealand.
(2) a. Preadsorption of HWSM onto HAP for 24 h, followed by 4 h coadsorption with phytate, resulted in at most a 25% decrease in HWSM binding.
(3) In spite of angiography showing "proper" position of the Infusaid catheter, HAPS showed preferential perfusion to the right lobe of the liver.
(4) As calcium influx is thought to contribute to the depolarizing phase of the TTX-insensitive spikes, we suggest that the decrease in HAP duration by clindamycin results from a decrease in the somal calcium current.
(5) At a pH above 6.0 already minimal HAP concentrations proved to be a suitable substrate for heterogeneous nucleation and growth of calcium oxalate.
(6) Most particles in Class III and IV lesions exfoliated until 2 weeks after implantation, and the junctional space between recipient bone and particles could not be distinguished, probably as a result of incorporation of HAP and osseous tissue.
(7) c. Simultaneous incubation of HWSM and phytate with HAP resulted in a 50% decrease in HWSM binding.
(8) In this study, the adaptation of HAp and alpha-TCP as a pulpotomy agent was studied histopathologically.
(9) With regard to HAP in the elderly, severe underlying disease, poor whole body state, aspiration, bacterial resistance to drugs, superinfection and polymicrobial infection were the factors predisposing difficulty in treatment of pneumonia in the elderly.
(10) There was a significant difference in affinity index between HAP-coated implants and control implants (P less than 0.001), while TiO2-coated implants showed no significant difference in comparison to the control.
(11) HAP had no effect on aggregation of chick embryo neural retina, kidney, or heart cells.
(12) Two layers of Dacron fabric were laid together, stitched to the rib with nylon thread, and the resulting tubular cavity packed with HAP filler to create an artificial rib.
(13) Investigations into the effects of relative molecular mass (RMM) and structure of poly(alkenoic acid)s on their adsorption on to hydroxyapatite (HAP) were carried out with a view to establishing factors that influence the adhesion of glass-poly(alkenoic acid) cements to tooth material.
(14) Two mouse lines carrying the hAP-c-kitW42 transgene show an effect on pigmentation and the number of tissue mast cells.
(15) Staining thus demineralizes early deposition sites of CaP; at the same time lead (Pb) and uranium (U) bind to the organic components of the extracellular matrix formerly associated with Ca and P. This substitution phenomenon alters the overall fine structure of mineral sites by depleting the amorphous density of Ca and P, and by creating isolated rodlike structures that have formerly been interpreted as representing hydroxyapatite (HAP) crystals.
(16) There were no clinical problems in the sites receiving HAP implantation.
(17) Taking our previous data into consideration, it was suggested that Resin-HAP had bio-compatibility both in soft tissue and bone, although its long-term stability as well as its stability under function should further be examined.
(18) No differences were found for the restriction enzymes Bam HI, Hap II, Hind III and Hpa I.
(19) Another important area of research that is just emerging concerns the ability of lipopolysaccharide and other components of HAP bacteria to stimulate or modulate macrophage release of inflammatory mediators such as interleukin-1.
(20) DNA from the chicken genome was analysed both by isopycnic centrifugation in cesium salt density gradients and by reassociation analysis using hydroxyapatite (HAP) chromatography.