What's the difference between circumscribe and circumvent?

Circumscribe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) to write or engrave around.
  • (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.

Circumvent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (2) To circumvent the restriction of having to analyze relatively short PCR fragments, restriction endonucleases were used to cleave a longer PCR product and the mixture of fragments was analyzed directly in SSCP gel electrophoresis.
  • (3) In order to circumvent the inhibitory reaction potentially occurring in cell-free systems, R-5020-binding studies additionally were performed in cell suspension.
  • (4) To circumvent this problem, 11 available brands of micropore filters (five prepacked and six to be packed and autoclaved) were investigated with the aim of finding the least toxic product.
  • (5) The detection of antigen in samples of urine collected serially may circumvent this problem in the future.
  • (6) This article describes one way of circumventing these disadvantages.
  • (7) The transplantation of a reduced liver was conceived to circumvent this problem.
  • (8) The data provide strong indications that one critical role of T-cell participation in humoral responses to antigens is to circumvent the development of a tolerogenic signal that, in the absence of such T-cell function, might otherwise ensue after binding of the antigenic determinants by specific precursor B lymphocytes.
  • (9) To circumvent this problem a general assay for the turn-off reaction has now been developed.
  • (10) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
  • (11) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
  • (12) These findings indicate alternative metabolic pathways may be operational in newborn rat brain enabling it to circumvent major blockage in thiamine-dependent reactions.
  • (13) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
  • (14) In contrast, these deletions do not circumvent aerobic repression of the nar operon (encoding the anaerobic respiratory enzyme nitrate reductase) under the control of the pleiotropic fnr gene product.
  • (15) In many samples, dynamical scattering and other non-linear effects limit the information in the image, but this limit can be circumvented by working in very thin areas of the specimen.
  • (16) Under "strong" antigen stimulation the IgE blockade is circumvented, presumably via the production of excessive amounts of interleukin-4 (IL-4).
  • (17) The present findings suggest the utility of CPIB as a selective agent to circumvent ADR resistance and to reduce host toxicity due to the drug.
  • (18) As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted , “this is a recipe for disaster,” and it is being done by circumventing the normal democratic process.
  • (19) A method was developed which circumvents the problems of the anticomplementary properties of agar media and the requirement of some L-phase variants for concentrations of salt that inhibit complement.
  • (20) To circumvent this complication, the VCG was reconstructed from the simultaneously recorded ECG leads.