What's the difference between circumscription and limitation?

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.

Limitation


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
  • (v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
  • (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
  • (v. t.) A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
  • (v. t.) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
  • (v. t.) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
  • (v. t.) A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
  • (2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
  • (3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
  • (7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
  • (9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
  • (10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
  • (13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
  • (14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
  • (16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
  • (18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
  • (19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
  • (20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.