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Enclose


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To inclose. See Inclose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Segmentally enclosed thrombolysis (SET) was undertaken immediately after PTA, when a double balloon catheter was positioned with a balloon at each end of dilated segments.
  • (2) These cases illustrate the danger of using such heating sources in enclosed spaces, due to their carbon monoxide-generating capability.
  • (3) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
  • (4) As part of our investigation of the behaviour of suture materials, 3-0 sutures of polydioxanone and Maxon were enclosed in nylon pouches, a technique developed for in vivo experiments to prevent cellular interaction with implanted devices.
  • (5) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (6) In the presence of 0.02 mM verapamil, the maturation of cumulus-enclosed oocytes was not affected, whereas at the same dose of verapamil the maturation of denuded oocytes was inhibited.
  • (7) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
  • (8) Schwann cells enclose vestibular ganglion cells and their peripheral nerve fibres already on the 15th-16th gestational days.
  • (9) The lead shield encloses only the testes, allowing its use with nearly any radiation field that does not include the testes.
  • (10) An alveolar pattern is formed enclosing each of the adjacent cells.
  • (11) 1965.-Thin sections of filterable hemolytic anemia agent of rat, now identified as Haemobartonella muris, revealed (i) that the agent is spherical or ellipsoidal and 350 to 700 mmu in size, (ii) that it has a single limiting membrane enclosing granules and some filaments (neither cell wall nor nucleoid was found), and (iii) that it is found preferentially at the surface and sometimes within the cytoplasmic vacuoles of erythrocytes in the circulating blood and bone marrow, and multiplies there through binary fission.
  • (12) Water was being trapped by capillary action between the minute overlapping moss leaves long enough for it to deposit its load of calcium salts, enclosing the plants in a stone straitjacket.
  • (13) Treated embryos showed a delay in the longitudinal growth of the tibia, as well as in the growth of all structures enclosed by the perichondrium-periosteum.
  • (14) In 1 case, the cleft is enclosed on its medial side by cartilage only.
  • (15) Immediately before in vitro insemination, the oocytes were divided into three types with different follicle cells: denuded and corona- and cumulus-enclosed oocytes.
  • (16) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.
  • (17) The germarium encloses mononucleate and binucleate trophocytes, prefollicular tissue and oogonia, while the vitellarium contains 2-5 oocytes arranged in order of maturity.
  • (18) The tissue is elastic, as also is the enclosed air.
  • (19) Previous experiments with nerves enclosed in millipore diffusion chambers had shown that myelin degradation during Wallerian degeneration depends on invasion by non-resident cells.
  • (20) n. differ from those in other congeneric species mainly in the absence of small spines on the surface of the transparent envelope enclosing the egg proper, measurements (size of eggs 0.069-0.075 x 0.027-0.030 mm) and their localization in the host.

In


Definition:

  • (prep.) The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.
  • (prep.) With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
  • (prep.) With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.
  • (prep.) With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.
  • (prep.) With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.
  • (prep.) With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
  • (prep.) With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
  • (prep.) With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
  • (adv.) Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
  • (adv.) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
  • (n.) One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.
  • (n.) A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
  • (v. t.) To inclose; to take in; to harvest.

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