(v. t.) To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
(2) More distally the nerve fibres consist only of one axon encircled by a Schwann cell.
(3) Foveal involvement included coarse foveal granularity, thinning of the foveal retinal pigment epithelium, increasing encirclement of the fovea with focal areas of atrophy, and minimal macular drusen.
(4) The roentgenographic appearance of most lesions consisted of a radiolucent central nidus encircled by sclerotic bone.
(5) At the ultrastructural level, kynurenine aminotransferase immunoreactive astrocytic processes were apparent throughout the neuropil where they often encircled capillaries and surrounded axospinous synapses.
(6) The bands encircle the muscle fiber perpendicular to the long axis of the fiber and they matched the sites of attachment of the sarcomeres to the plasma membrane.
(7) These and other results indicate that the junctional complex encircling the apical surface of a sheet of MDCK cells can provide an effective permeability barrier constituting a true occluding junction with the same properties in hemicyst and nonhemicyst areas.
(8) Encircling endocardial resection, with complete removal of endocardial scar unguided by intraoperative mapping, was employed in 10 patients with drug-resistant sustained ventricular tachycardia.
(9) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.
(10) Within these fields, the development of perineuronal baskets followed a similar medial to lateral sequence: DA axons first surrounded a few neuronal cell bodies at P3 in the medial part of the intermediate LSN; at P6, Met-IR axons encircled more laterally located perikarya, and only at P9, some neurons located along the ventricle in the lateral DA field became surrounded.
(11) Ventricular tachycardias occurring after myocardial infarction (MI) and resistant to medical treatment were successfully treated in 5 patients by encircling endocardial ventriculotomy.
(12) At the end of the third reperfusion day, an atypical form of bouton degeneration was found, consisting of massive occurrence of enlarged (greater than 4 microns) boutons encircled by a clear halo.
(13) The preservation of the His bundle connection is explained by the failure of the sulcus to completely encircle the heart.
(14) Examinations of stages of fibril development in muscle fibers of seven Rhesus monkey and six human fetuses reveal SR tubules encircling the Z lines at all stages of fibril development.
(15) All patients had undergone pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil injection for proliferative vitreoretinopathy; five patients had encircling solid silicone scleral buckles.
(16) Vibrassae show up as hair follicles plunged in a blood sinus encircled by a thick connective capsule.
(17) From these primary processes, secondary ones arise and often encircle the vessel almost completely.
(18) The "dangerous zones" are situated at the base of the right-side surface of the interatrial septum above the fibrous ring of the septal cusp of the tricuspid valve, along the base of the membranous segment of the interventricular septum, in front of the posterior fibrous triangle, and at the fibrous ring encircling the bases of the posterior and right aortic semilunar valves.
(19) Thus, under these circumstances, the message from the neuron to the oligodendrocyte to make myelin is apparently intact, yet there is interference with the ability of the oligodendroglial cell process to find, attach to and encircle CNS axons with a normal myelin sheath.
(20) Intraocular pressure was recorded continuously during intravitreal infusion of saline solution before and after the application of encircling silicone elements.
Wristlet
Definition:
(n.) An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.