What's the difference between centre and unicentral?

Centre


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
  • (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
  • (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
  • (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.
  • (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
  • (n. & v.) See Center.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (4) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (6) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
  • (7) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (8) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
  • (9) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
  • (10) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
  • (11) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (12) Various immunoassays have been introduced into, and evaluated at, the Amani Medical Centre in north-east Tanzania.
  • (13) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
  • (14) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
  • (15) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (16) The results of this study are compared with the results of an earlier study which was completed before the Community Care Centre was established.
  • (17) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (18) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
  • (19) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (20) Four centres contributed a total of 466 patients to a study comparing the efficacy of oral amoxycillin with that of probenecid and intramuscular ceftizoxime.

Unicentral


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a single center of growth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All foci of tumor were observed to be interconnected, which suggests a unicentric origin for this subtype of basal cell carcinoma.
  • (2) These results are strong evidence of a unicentric origin of these tumors, although the tumors' gross appearance is suggestive of multifocal origin.
  • (3) On the basis of unicentric data profiles, multicentric hospital profiles, and problem profiles, a quality comparison could be carried out and the variability of cardiosurgical action which may occasion interventions could be identified.
  • (4) It enlarges by both multicentric expansion due to the proliferation of localized groups of epithelial cells in the lining and by unicentric expansion from the hydrostatic pressure of its contents.
  • (5) The median age for multicentric, unilateral cases was intermediate between the bilateral and unicentric medians.
  • (6) Unicentric or multicentric hepatocellular carcinoma was confirmed by histopathological criteria in 89% of the cases.
  • (7) Three patients with bilateral hepatocellular carcinoma were confirmed to have bicentric or tricentric hepatocellular carcinoma rather than intrahepatic dissemination and had survival rates similar to those in unicentric hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • (8) Among 17 unicentric hepatocellular carcinomas, minor changes of the integration pattern--including partial loss or addition of the integration sites or both--were detected in the metastatic lesions in 29% of the cases.
  • (9) Three invasive HBsAg-seronegative hepatocellular carcinomas were found to have hepatitis B virus DNA integration and were of unicentric origin.
  • (10) We have realized an unicentric prospective study to assess the effects of Nitrendipine on carotid circulation and arterial blood pressure (BP) in essential, permanent, uncomplicated arterial hypertension.
  • (11) We conclude that the beta S gene in presently isolated and disperse tribal populations in India is associated with one predominant typical haplotype, suggesting a unicentric origin of the mutation in India.
  • (12) Evolution of nodules was more often multicentric but sometimes unicentric with slow growth.
  • (13) While this is an ongoing study, data collected to date seem to indicate that most tumors are unicentric and that only infrequently do they invade the chiasm (4 of 106 cases).
  • (14) These findings support the hypothesis of an unicentric origin of the beta-G-San Jose mutation which may have arisen in Eastern Sicily.
  • (15) These data demonstrate the unicentric origin of the beta C mutation in central West Africa, with subsequent mutational modification in a small number of instances.
  • (16) In this series, none of the patients with nonrecurrent unilateral, unicentric JP has thus far had subsequent mammary carcinoma develop.
  • (17) It enlarges by unicentric expansion from the hydrostatic pressure of its contents.
  • (18) In addition, this finding implies a unicentric origin of the tribal populations themselves: The gene must have arisen and spread before tribal dispersion.
  • (19) The unicentrical appearance of the carcinoma, confirmed in 45 cases, is not in disagreement with this conclusion.
  • (20) The discovery that Hodgkin's disease has a unicentric onset has enabled its prognosis to be modified.

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