(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.
Draw
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
(v. t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
(v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
(v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
(v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
(v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
(v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
(v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
(v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.
(v. t.) To remove the contents of
(v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
(v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
(v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
(v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
(v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
(v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
(v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
(v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
(v. t.) To withdraw.
(v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
(v. i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
(v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
(v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
(v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
(v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
(v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
(v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
(v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.
(v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
(v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
(v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
(v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
(n.) The act of drawing; draught.
(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.
(n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.
(n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(2) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(3) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(4) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(5) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(6) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(10) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
(11) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
(12) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(13) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(14) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(15) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(16) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(17) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(18) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
(19) Consequently, assaying the enterobacteriaceae contents is not suitable to draw any reliable conclusions upon the salmonellae contents of fishmeal.
(20) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.