(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.
Madhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ian Cruise, an independent councillor in Birmingham who resigned as a prison officer at the West Midlands jail in July, said it was an “absolute madhouse” and should be taken back from G4s control.
(2) EDM today has come a long way from the early days of house and techno, when sound was privileged over vision, an ethos enshrined in the title of the 1992 Madhouse compilation A Basement, a Red Light, and a Feeling .
(3) Four hours from the Zurich madhouse, Uefa’s base on the shores of Lake Geneva in Nyon hums with calm purpose.
(4) Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, the former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman who is an adviser to Cable, described the proposal as the "economics of the madhouse".
(5) Otherwise your capitalism degrades into a low-trust, low-investment, low-innovation madhouse in which all shareholders think about is the next deal and next chance to exit – and where wage inequalities grow ever higher.
(6) But turn the page and there's Dillon's editor, Bill Bradshaw, wailing that "Fabio Capello today has to show he is worth his £6m salary by bringing some sanity to the Rustenberg madhouse."
(7) The saga has a history of celebrating tough females, and you’d have to be truly crazy to survive as a lone woman in the saga’s dusty post-apocalyptic madhouse.
(8) Particularly in a week like this, to travel from London to Berlin feels like leaving the madhouse and arriving in a world inhabited by rational beings once more.
(9) Lots of bodies haven’t been picked up because the separatists are shooting.” “It was a madhouse.
(10) In those cities, 0.3334 of them studied Medicine and 0.6444 of them lived there; 0.6 of them worked in hospitals and 0.2222 of them worked in madhouses.
(11) He said he had also lost his Kremlin pass and described what was happening in Moscow as 'a madhouse'.
(12) 'I'm not staying in this madhouse' Rampling was born in Essex, the daughter of a colonel and a painter.
(13) Osborne dubbed Darling's plans "a tax rise on almost all jobs", and "the economics of the madhouse", claiming it was a mistake to increase the tax burden in this way.
(14) That would be frankly the economics of the madhouse.
(15) But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
(16) Out on the ramp, where, with the "the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts ", the selections are reversed as reunions, the narrative voice commiserates with the protagonist.
(17) He also started visiting his local bar, the Luda Kuca (“Madhouse”), a smoke-filled, rough-edged place that appealed to a shifting crowd of impoverished war veterans, Bosnian Serbs and Montenegrins.
(18) In addition, as President of the "Junta de Beneficencia de Santiago" he supervised and updated hospital care management and founded several health institutions such as the Madhouse, the Orphan House and the School of Midwifery.
(19) Wherever he was, whether sectioned in the madhouse, or home, sprawled on his red-velvet chaise longue, amid a blizzard of books, ash and paper, he was one of life's great learners, a modest student of the world he wrote about with such exhilarating power.
(20) That was because of the strange case of John Clare's copyright, whereby a living editor claimed the copyright of a poet who had died in a madhouse a century and a half ago.