Adventitious vs Complication - What's the difference?
adventitious | complication |
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
* 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101
The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
(medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
As an adjective adventitious
is from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.As a noun complication is
the act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.adventitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
- The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;