(a.) Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
(n.) An islander.
Example Sentences:
(1) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(2) Both histochemical methods revealed the presence of intra-insular fiber plexuses.
(3) of rats resulted in cell death and terminal degeneration in entorhinal, insular, and posterior cingulate cortices, and in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus sectors of hippocampus.
(4) The analysis of the sample would show there is a close relationship between the general process of aging and insular amyloid deposits; diabetes mellitus would then occur, increasing the amount of the above-mentioned deposits only in patients of a more advanced aged.
(5) We have investigated the anatomical organization of the connections between the hypothalamus and the insular cortex of the cat by using retrograde and anterograde transport of horseradish peroxidase-wheat germ agglutinin.
(6) Cytoarchitectonic evaluation of the perisylvian cortex in the three cases examined in detail indicated that labeled areas included the ventral premotor cortex (area 6V); the precentral opercular and orbitofrontal opercular areas (PrCO and OFO); the second somatosensory area (S-II); the opercular cortex immediately anterior to S-II, possibly corresponding to area 2 of the S-I complex; and the central part of the insular cortex, including portions of the granular and dysgranular insular fields (Ig, Idg).
(7) The CGRP-IR levels in the rostral (gustatory) part of the insular cortex were increased significantly by strongly aversive taste stimuli such as quinine hydrochloride and conditioned taste stimuli (NaCl and sucrose) which animals had been taught to avoid.
(8) The data indicate that insular-temporal lesions disrupt a spatio-temporal pattern discrimination just as they do auditory, visual, or vibrotactile temporal pattern discriminations.
(9) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(10) On the opposite side labelled cells were present in area 7b and in certain areas that are connected with it, area 5, SII and the insular granular area.
(11) Severe necrosis with extensive hemorrhage in the white matter was predominant in the temporal, insular and orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus and globus pallidus.
(12) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(13) For the treatment of defects of the lateral nasal wall, in addition to the insular flap operation from the nasolabial region and the forehead, the medial frontal flap technique as described by Kazanjian is particularly recommended.
(14) The cortico--cortical connections of orbito--frontal cortex with motor, somatosensory, and rostral sections of insular zone of neocortex appeared to be bilateral.
(15) Other results revealed that ibotenic acid lesions of the insular cortex attenuated the reaction to the novel taste of saccharin in a familiar environment but failed to affect the ingestion of a novel food in a novel environment or passive avoidance learning.
(16) The consideration of acino-insular complexes in morphogenesis of bovine endocrine pancreas in discussed.
(17) Lester Young often commented that “I feel a draught” when he sensed a racist atmosphere, and his personality became radically more insular after the abuse he suffered in the US army in 1945.
(18) Insular, mixed, and clear cell carcinoids were generally diffusely argentaffin and positive for chromogranin, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and serotonin.
(19) The pattern of retrogradely labeled neurons in the medial frontal, insular and olfactory cortices was examined to determine the topographical organization of the cell populations projecting to these subcortical targets and the extent to which they overlapped.
(20) Two-5 h after occlusion of the MCA the plasma levels of norepinephrine, epinephrine and dopamine were significantly elevated (33%, 44% and 28%, respectively) compared to preocclusion levels only in animals in which the cerebral infarction involved the insular cortex.
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Definition:
(p. p.) of Withdraw
Example Sentences:
(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(2) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(3) VP levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in liquor withdrawn from the cisterna magna.
(4) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(5) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.
(6) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(7) Although oral contraception was withdrawn in all cases, many women continued to smoke.
(8) In contrast, interchange of the histones and tightly bound non-histone protein DNA complexes from hormone-withdrawn and estrogen-stimulated chromatins during reconstitution did not affect the level of mRNAOV sequences produced.
(9) These results are likely to underestimate the true number of complaints because participants may be withdrawn (e.g., deaths, losses to follow-up, and refusals) before they ever complain of an adverse effect.
(10) When reinforcement for competing behavior was withdrawn, however, rats resumed their original behavior and there were no overall savings in total responses to extinction.
(11) The blood samples were withdrawn in the fasting state during the week preceding the event and within 30 min after completion of the race.
(12) Side effects were reported in 32% of the urapidil group and in 29% of the atenolol group; however, these were mild and transient in all but two patients (urapidil = 1, atenolol = 1) who were withdrawn.
(13) The average housing benefit withdrawal varies across the country, with the figure reaching £15.64 a week in Birmingham, £19 in Hertfordshire and £24 in Wandsworth; a total of 55,000 tenants have had housing benefit withdrawn in London.
(14) Three patients were withdrawn and the remaining 56 were examined with special reference to incisional herniation at their six-month follow-up visit.
(15) Criteria for the determination of death are based on similar practices in other countries: permanent functional death of the brain stem constitutes brain death and, when brain death occurs, artificial life-support can be withdrawn.
(16) Approximately 10-20 ml fluid were withdrawn from the renal pelvis for cytology and culture.
(17) Two developed unstable angina, one headache, one thyreotoxicosis, one a hypertensive crisis and were thus withdrawn.
(18) Pedro is due in London on Wednesday to undertake a medical and discuss personal terms, with United having withdrawn their interest.
(19) The catheter with intact triple knots could be withdrawn without an invasive maneuver.
(20) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.