(v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
(v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
(n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
(3) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(4) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(5) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(6) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
(7) In all 4 cases, their reactivity outside the gastrointestinal tract is mainly confined to tracheal epithelium.
(8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
(9) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(10) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
(11) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
(12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
(13) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(14) At an ultrastructural level, 15-1 immunogold-labeling in the epidermis was confined to the surface of cells exhibiting Birbeck granules.
(15) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
(16) Three patients were confined to a wheelchair after 3 years of follow-up.
(17) This observation confirms that idiotypic recognition is confined to a limited number of clonal products, despite the fact that a very heterogeneous antibody population was used forthe anti-idiotypic immunization.
(18) The neighbouring neocortical areas receive afferents neither from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus nor from the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum; their catecholamine innervation is mainly confined to the superficial layers and appears to be of noradrenergic nature.
(19) Thus definitive evidence of fetal infection confined to red cell precursors is documented.
(20) More patients are being encountered with early Stage I lesions that are confined to the breast or with minimal axillary involvement.
Contiguous
Definition:
(a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclei in contiguous groups of cells were modeled and analyzed.
(2) These data imply that the viral subgenomic mRNAs are composed of leader and body sequences which are non-contiguous on the genome.
(3) Close proximity and contiguity of the cut surfaces were important for such growth to occur.
(4) The vessel number, the vessel diameter and the distance intervening between contiguous vessels were measured.
(5) Genes tfdD and tfdE are contiguous in the tfdCDEF operon, whereas the corresponding genes, clcB and clcD, of the clcABD operon, are known to be separated by a long open reading frame of unknown function.
(6) The human histone gene-bovine papillomavirus episome is therefore a viable system for studying cell cycle-regulated histone gene expression under conditions where control is not influenced at the site of chromosomal integration by cis-acting elements of genes normally not contiguous.
(7) We have applied random mutagenesis over short contiguous residue tracts ('windows') within an active peptide (the alpha-peptide of beta-galactosidase) such that all window residues are replaced simultaneously.
(8) The procedure was repeated for each contiguous section level of the liver.
(9) A contiguous sequence of 25 residues on the surface of the 74 kDa human plasma metal-binding transport protein histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) has been identified as a bioactive metal-binding domain.
(10) One group, tested on delayed response with stimuli and responses spatially contiguous, solved the task at once, whereas the other group, trained with actual stimuli and responses spatially discontiguous, attained criterion after errors.
(11) Postmortem examination showed the tumor to be composed of both malignant schwannoma and angiosarcoma and to have arisen from contiguous neurofibromas in portal tracts.
(12) The Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin determinant is composed of four contiguous genes encoded on the same DNA strand and denoted lktCABD, in the order of their genetic organization.
(13) Magnetic resonance measurements of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction based on measurements of area and length in a single oblique plane containing the long axis of the ventricle were compared with measurements made by summing the areas of the chamber in multiple contiguous slices.
(14) A contiguous panel of markers permitted mapping of the deletion to 17p12-p13.1, the same chromosomal region for which loss of alleles has been shown in tumor specimens from patients with colon cancer, and the same region to which the p53 gene has been mapped.
(15) The deformities resulting from premature closure of a coronal, sagittal, metopic, or lambdoid suture can be predicted by the following observations: (1) cranial vault bones that are prematurely fused act as a single bone plate with decreased growth potential; (2) asymmetrical bone deposition occurs mainly at perimeter sutures, with increased bone deposition directed away from the bone plate; (3) sutures adjacent to the stenotic suture compensate in growth more than those sutures not contiguous with the closed suture; and (4) enhanced bone deposition occurs along both sides of a nonperimeter suture that is a continuation of the prematurely closed suture.
(16) In these cases of low-grade oligodendroglioma, MR was believed to be superior to CT in providing information needed for radiation therapy planning because of its ability to distinguish tumor and adjacent edema (considered tissue at risk for containing microscopic tumor) from contiguous normal brain.
(17) The structural ovalbumin DNA sequences are not contiguous and are separated by multiple "intervening regions" in native chicken DNA.
(18) Common predisposing factors in this older group of patients include infection at contiguous foci, tumors in close proximity to the central nervous system, or fistulous communications with the central nervous system.
(19) Ten freshly extracted teeth which had carious pulpal exposures and periapical lesions contiguous with the root apex were placed inside an anaerobic chamber and the apical 5 mm of the root canals cultured.
(20) First-episode (N = 62) and chronic, multi-episode (N = 24) schizophrenic patients and healthy comparison subjects (N = 42) underwent MRI of the whole head in a sequence that provided 63 contiguous brain slice images.