(v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
(v. t.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(2) The present series of five cases expands the spectra of both histological patterns and clinical presentations and suggests that the entity of sclerosing stromal tumours may not be as clearly circumscribed as has been previously reported.
(3) Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) is a well-circumscribed, flat, pigmented fundus lesion that is stable and generally nonprogressive.
(4) At that time, a network of fibrils containing the amino propeptide of type III procollagen was seen delineating well-circumscribed compartments of collagen fibrils throughout the entire tendon.
(5) This is a report of a circumscribed lymphangioma in a 22-year-old man after a severe direct trauma of the thigh.
(6) We report the effects of smaller circumscribed lesions of the habenula complex on a simple one-way active avoidance paradigm in three separate experiments in which the required operant was a step or jump onto an elevated platform.
(7) Data on the surgical treatment of acute cholecystitis complicated by localized circumscribed and ++non-circumscribed peritonitis are presented.
(8) Those circumscribed tumors lateral, superior, and inferior to the optic nerve may well be approached by a lateral orbitotomy using microdissecting techniques.
(9) In acute inflammation, circumscribed ulcers were often seen; along their margins the epithelial cells were swollen and isolated from the surrounding cells.
(10) The tumor, consisting of a circumscribed mass measuring 24 X 24 X 8 cm and weight 3.7 kg, originated from the right diaphragm and had no metastasis.
(11) It concerns three more or less circumscribed changes (differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid, autonomous adenoma and focal thyroiditis) and two diffuse thyroid conditions (sub-acute and lymphocytic diffuse thyroiditis, hyperthyroidism).
(12) Group II includes 10 patients with astigmatism due to circumscribed peripheral limbal corneal dystrophy.
(13) A well circumscribed area of necrotic bone was demonstrated in the weight bearing part of the caput giving evidence of a solitary infarction.
(14) In three patients painful reddening of a well-circumscribed area of the skin occurred within five days of starting anticoagulant treatment with phenprocoumon (Marcumar), and within a short time it developed into a full-blown picture of coumarin necrosis.
(15) A sharply circumscribed, vascular, connective tissue mass which replaced the cortex of several adjoining cerebral gyri is described.
(16) Colonic and skin temperatures were monitored continuously during each experiment in which a circumscribed site in the monkey's hypothalamus had been labelled by microinjection of 50-100 muCi serotonin (3H-5-HT) or 50-100 muCi or norepinephrine (3H-NE).
(17) A case of hemangiopericytoma in the male pelvis is presented in which computed tomography demonstrated a well-circumscribed, homogeneous enhancing mass with feeding vessels.
(18) Using cytochemical and electron microscopic techniques, it was shown that enucleated L929 fibroblasts retained a radiating pattern of microtubules as well as a large and circumscribed Golgi complex for at least one day.
(19) The authors report two cases of localized herpetic lymphadenitis, both showing well-circumscribed areas of necrosis containing cells with diagnostic intranuclear inclusions.
(20) Following creation of a unilateral circumscribed lesion in a portion of a cat substantia nigra pars reticulata by microinfusion of ibotenic acid, circling movements toward the contralateral side of the lesion appeared within 2 days and disappeared a few days later.
Circumscription
Definition:
(n.) An inscription written around anything.
(n.) The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
(n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
Example Sentences:
(1) This approach to circumscription is inspired by the influential work of John McCarthy at Stanford University.
(2) The authors describe the radiographic appearance and the investigation techniques for circumscript lipoma in the subcutaneous tissue, in the muscles and for a large diffuse symmetric lipomatosis.
(3) Evidence is presented to show that numerical taxonomy is of proven value both for the circumscription and identification of Streptomyces species.
(4) The lesion in question presents itself clinically as a basal cell carcinoma on the face and histopathologically as a neoplasm typified by small size, sharp circumscription, and a unique combination of kinds of follicular differentiation, namely, follicular germs and infundibula.
(5) Iodine-induced thyrotoxicosis (IIT), due to iodine application in high amounts in patients with circumscript or disseminated thyroid autonomy, is complicated by a prolonged course, mainly due on the body's resistance to conservative therapy with thiourea derivates.
(6) Radiologically, 15 patients showed a focal solitary manifestation of lymphogranulomatosis, whereas in 19 patients multiple, plane or circumscript areas of shadow were seen in one or both lobes of the lung.
(7) A change was seen in the indications during the past 5 years: While choledocholithiasis after cholecystectomy remained the main indication, EST is performed with increasing frequency in patients with common bile duct stones having their gallbladder in situ as a definitive method with low complications (only 0.61% emergency cholecystectomies): Circumscript papillary stenosis became quite a rare indication.
(8) Correlation between ultrasound and computed tomography proved that non-haemorrhagic HIE produces global or circumscript high echogenicity in the first week after the hypoxic event whereas computed tomography shows pathologic hypodensity in the same areas.
(9) In this disease unusual circumscript and large calcareous deposits of the basal ganglia and scattered gyriform calcifications of the occipito-parietal cortex were shown on plain skull x-rays and their paraventricular localization demonstrated on pneumoencephalotomogram.
(10) The patients were selected for interstitial irradiation on the basis of histological classification, location and circumscription of their tumours (106 pilocytic astrocytomas, 251 astrocytomas WHO grade II, 29 oligodendrogliomas, 44 oligo-astrocytomas, 75 anaplastic astrocytomas and 34 glioblastomas).
(11) Histological type, histological grade, nuclear pleomorphism, tubule formation, intraductal growth pattern, tumour margin circumscription, tumour necrosis and inflammatory cell reaction were semiquantitatively analysed with special reference to disease outcome during the mean follow-up 12.8 years.
(12) Prevalence of coronary abnormalities (circumscript coronary stenoses, diffuse vessel obliteration or dilated angiopathy) increased from 14.9% in the first to 66.7% in the fifth year.
(13) The results indicate that the method is of value for the separation of actinomycetes at and below the species level, in the detection and circumscription of novel actinomycetes, and for the detection of identical and duplicated strains.
(14) The etiology of radiologic signs of circumscript parenchymatous lesions is multivarious.
(15) In all patients at least one of these procedures was performed in addition to CT. CT proved to be a valuable noninvasive method in detecting and differentiating circumscript liver lesions such us metastases, primary liver tumors, solitary cysts and polycystic disease, abscesses, and echinococciasis.
(16) Our results prove CT to be a valuable non-invasive tool in the evaluation of circumscript liver disease.
(17) With a rate of 94% true positive diagnoses, CT proved to be superior to gamma imaging with radiocolloids (81% true positives) in diagnosing circumscript liver diseases (n = 31).
(18) The paucity of axillary lymph node metastases and the circumscription of these neoplasms belied their aggressive clinical behavior.
(19) ); evidence of chronic liver disease; differentiation between intra- and extrahepatic cholestasis; evidence of a circumscript lesion of the liver; associated reaction of the liver in connection with other extrahepatic diseases.
(20) The patient in case 1 had multifocal myelolipomas, involving both the lung and retroperitoneum, that mimicked malignancy, and the patient in case 2 had a single diffuse retroperitoneal myelolipoma without circumscription.