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adventitious /ad·ven·ti·tious/ (ad?ven-tish´us)
1. accidental or acquired; not natural or hereditary.
2. found out of the normal or usual place.

ad·ven·ti·tious (dvn-tshs)
adj.
1. Arising from an external source or occurring in an unusual place or manner; extrinsic.
2. Occurring accidentally or spontaneously, not caused by heredity.
3. Adventitial.

adventitious
1. accidental or acquired.
2. not in the usual place.

adventitious breath sounds
see breath sounds.
adventitious movements
purposeless movements; as seen in distemper myoclonus in dogs.

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Instead of working to increase the number of deaf schools, the government focused on differentiating three different types of deaf schools: those for the totally deaf, those for the partially deaf (born with defective hearing), and those for late deafened or adventitiously deaf.
Even the sexual aspects of the story seem more integral to the whole and are not adventitiously added for a prurient effect.
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