What's the difference between hidden and occult?

Hidden


Definition:

  • (p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
  • (p. p.) of Hide

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that gamma-(312-324) is hidden in fibrinogen and is exposed by the formation of fibrin.
  • (2) The unauthorised trades remained hidden for years in so-called umbrella accounts set up to store the funds.
  • (3) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (4) Such inquiries - set up under the Police Act, to look into a matter of serious public concern - are far from common and bring to light facts and opinions that are frequently hidden from view.
  • (5) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (6) Next month we’ll see him in Hidden Figures, the story of the African-American women who powered Nasa .
  • (7) This process is also formulated as a Hidden Markov Model problem and solved by applying the Expectation Maximization algorithm.
  • (8) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
  • (9) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (10) "Every exchange you have with a witness will be analysed and considered in order to reveal a hidden agenda.
  • (11) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
  • (12) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
  • (13) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (14) This paper describes a series of young patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility because they presented symptoms indicative of a psychotic disorder when, in fact, the youngsters were dealing with the strain of keeping a family secret hidden.
  • (15) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (16) Seeing the faces in my dark room or on my laptop screen brings back the hidden emotions and memories, often leaving me in tears and unable to carry on with my work.
  • (17) Photograph: Casey Orr for the Observer There is money here, but it’s hidden, a golden hare.
  • (18) Here the authors consider the possibility of discovery and evaluation of various hidden conditions of malnutrition in patients suffering of valvular heart disease--depending or not from the cardiopathy itself--and their complex pathogenesis, to correct at the end such condition and offer the patients an optimal prognosis with therapeutical procedures.
  • (19) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
  • (20) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.

Occult


Definition:

  • (a.) Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.
  • (v. t.) To eclipse; to hide from sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
  • (2) The present report details an unusual patient with "occult temporal arteritis" who sustained abrupt monocular visual loss and subsequent ipsilateral ophthalmoplegia involving all functions of the oculomotor nerve.
  • (3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
  • (4) Lateral cervical cystic metastases arising from occult thyroid carcinoma and their ultrasonic differentiation from true cysts are discussed.
  • (5) The procedure may prove useful for detection of occult infections and may provide a new diagnostic approach in fever of unknown origin.
  • (6) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
  • (7) While occult breast carcinoma was relatively common in our series (two of 17 patients), the ability to detect the tumor with mammography was disappointing (one of two patients).
  • (8) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
  • (9) In order to estimate the diagnostic validity of chemical fecal occult blood tests, i.e.
  • (10) Arm exercise with myocardial scintigraphy may be an effective method of detecting occult ischemia in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
  • (11) ), the diagnostic significance (occult carcinoma?, parenchymal asymmetry?, benign or malignant microcalcification?)
  • (12) The importance of recognising occult CO exposure and of treating symptomatic patients promptly cannot be overemphasized.
  • (13) In contrast to the immunologically-detected fecal occult blood test, the sensitivity and specificity for CR cancers are surprisingly high, the percentage values in using the Shams test having been found to be 100% and 93.1%, respectively (Shamsuddin).
  • (14) Accordingly, exacerbation of atherogenesis may accompany release of platelet-associated growth factors (or mitogens) occurring in association with occult, repetitive thrombosis and thrombolysis.
  • (15) It was found that combining faecal occult blood testing with the health check did not reduce attendance at the health check--43.5% of patients attended when the Haemoccult test kit was offered by the nurse at the health check, 43.6% attended when a test kit was included with the invitation to attend the health check and 42.9% attended when the health check invitation was posted on its own.
  • (16) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
  • (17) Because cavernous malformations are often angiographically occult and do not have a characteristic appearance on computed tomography (CT), they are seldom recognized preoperatively and may be missed if the surgical specimen is not carefully reviewed.
  • (18) Taken together, these data demonstrate that dental radiography is not efficacious for the purpose of detecting occult lesions.
  • (19) A forensic autopsy series of 519 women more than 14 years old was studied for prevalence of benign, atypical, and occult malignant breast lesions.
  • (20) and metoclopramide stimulation have considerable value in identifying hyperprolactinaemic patients with prolactin-secreting adenomas, particularly those which are radiologically occult.