What's the difference between peculiar and unusual?

Peculiar


Definition:

  • (a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.
  • (a.) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
  • (a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
  • (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
  • (n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (2) Structural peculiarities in tubulin polymorphism are considered.
  • (3) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
  • (4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (5) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
  • (6) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
  • (7) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
  • (8) The peculiar aspects of uncommon causes of IVH are discussed on the basis of a review of the literature.
  • (9) The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.
  • (10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
  • (11) In 20.2% of the cases with carcinoma the tumor cells showed peculiar intracytoplasmic inclusions, whereas in only 0.43% of the biopsies of the mamma without carcinoma such inclusions were to be found.
  • (12) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
  • (13) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
  • (14) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
  • (15) The peculiarities of the growth and extracellular accumulation of free keto and amino cids by a barotolerant culture (strain 0798) in culturing on Ran's glucose-mineral medium conditions of 1, 200, 300, and 500 atm were investigated.
  • (16) Diffuse widening of the subarchnoidal space, diffuse cerebral changes, interhemispheric assymetry of the venous and arterial phases of cerebral circulation: the most peculiar symptoms of the CNS affection in SLE according to CT and EEG and radionuclide studies of cerebral hemodynamics.
  • (17) One peculiar case of giant ameloblastoma of the mandible is reported in this paper.
  • (18) Considering the tumour's late occurrence the histological peculiarities of the place of origin as one of the factors of possible histogenesis is stressed.
  • (19) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
  • (20) They also include difficulties peculiar to the condition of mild mental retardation, including the choice of method of classification whether by IQ testing or administratively; the heterogeneous nature of the individuals so characterised; and the confounding effects of social and biological factors and the changes in the implications for the affected individual of the condition, depending on age, sex and environment.

Unusual


Definition:

  • (a.) Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (2) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
  • (3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
  • (6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (7) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
  • (8) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
  • (9) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
  • (10) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (11) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
  • (12) Caulobacter flagella are unusual in that they contain two different flagellin subunits.
  • (13) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
  • (14) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
  • (15) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
  • (16) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (17) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
  • (18) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
  • (19) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
  • (20) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.