UNINTENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unintended mean? 

• UNINTENDED (adjective)
  The adjective UNINTENDED has 1 sense:

1. not deliberate

  Familiarity information: UNINTENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not deliberate

Similar:

accidental; inadvertent (happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally)

causeless; fortuitous; uncaused (having no cause or apparent cause)

unintentional; unplanned; unwitting (not done with purpose or intent)

Also:

unmotivated (without motivation)

unplanned (without apparent forethought or prompting or planning)

Attribute:

intentionality (expressive of intentions)

Antonym:

intended (resulting from one's intentions)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the unintended escape of a gas from the container in which it is housed.

(Gas Leak Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the unintended ejection of device component materials.

(Expulsion, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the unintended of projection of device component materials.

(Extrusion, Food and Drug Administration)

Movement of a medical device to an unintended location within the body with resulting obstruction of an organ or vessel.

(Device Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the device producing unintended temperatures (for issues related to environmental/ambient temperatures refer to code C63307).

(Medical Device Temperature Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

Azacosterol has the unintended side effect of causing myotonia.

(Azacosterol, NCI Thesaurus)

An unintended or unpleasant sound that emanates from a device.

(Audible Device Noise, NCI Thesaurus)

Any noxious and unintended response(s) to a medical product or procedure, for which a causal relationship with this product or procedure is at least a reasonable possibility i.e., the relationship cannot be ruled out.

(Adverse Reaction, NCI Thesaurus)

Any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, disease, or other medical occurrence with a temporal association with the use of a medical product, procedure or other therapy, or in conjunction with a research study, regardless of causal relationship.

(Adverse event, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

An adverse event (AE) can therefore be any unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal (investigational) product, whether or not related to the medicinal (investigational) product.

(Adverse event, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)