(n.) The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.
(n.) The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(3) When the aggregates occurred on the cell periphery their position coincided with areas free of lamellae.
(4) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(5) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(6) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(7) A conclusion is made that it is important to examine the eye fundus periphery and equator in patients with central vitreoretinal edematous fibroplastic syndrome.
(8) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(9) Germinal vesicle stage oocytes undergo perinuclear aggregation of acidic organelles during GVBD and these organelles subsequently disperse into the cell cortex as the first meiotic spindle migrates to the oocyte periphery.
(10) In contrast to conventionally induced collagen arthritis (CIA), the inflammatory infiltrates, filling joint spaces and synovial tissue, were extensively dominated by polymorphonuclear cells, whereas macrophage-like cells expressing class II molecules and a few T cells were seen only in the periphery of the developing pannus.
(11) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
(12) The macrophages were localized within the tumor tissue, at the periphery of the tumor and its surroundings.
(13) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(14) These results imply that even T cells with intermediate affinity for self are negatively selected in the thymus despite the fact that they are not able to react against self antigens in the periphery.
(15) Increased T3 peripheral production in FDH (by 24%) indicates that T4 bound to abnormal albumin is more available to tissues than T4 carried by TBG, thus suggesting an important role of albumin in T4 availability to the periphery.
(16) This expansion involves the migration over the inner surface of the vitelline membrane of a specialized band of 'edge cells' at the blastoderm periphery.
(17) This nucleotide is also connected to the periphery of the corrin ring.
(18) Microtubules that radiated out toward the cell periphery incorporated the DTAF-tubulin solely at their distal, that is, their plus ends.
(19) In the observation of the serial sections, capillary plexuses were able to be confirmed along the periphery, very close to the auricular cartilage.
(20) In the periphery, the peptide is colocalized with catecholamines in postganglionic sympathetic fibres and the adrenal medulla.
Suburban
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
(n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of Bifidobacterium is lower in a newly constructed suburban hospital.
(2) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
(3) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(4) "We've put ourselves in this suburban existence, we've tried to change from within and, in the process, we've sort of lost what made us gay to begin with.
(5) It is a problem mostly along roads in urban or suburban areas.
(6) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(7) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(8) Two hundred and four subjects, 22-35 years old, were selected from a suburban part of Khartoum.
(9) We studied 85 suburban paramedics for Hepatitis B serologic markers.
(10) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
(11) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(12) Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie for the Guardian O n the evening of 21 March 2014, Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”, according to his LinkedIn profile, who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment), took his young Siberian husky for a walk on Bernal Hill.
(13) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(14) Let me tell you that waiting at a suburban station in Sydney for 45 minutes for the next train is far more aggravating than moving swiftly through a tunnel towards your destination, even if it is crowded for 20 minutes until you get past Bank.
(15) 95% were Caucasian, which approximates the racial balance of this suburban, midwestern population.
(16) And that’s the thing about substance abuse – it doesn’t discriminate.” Authorities report 74 heroin overdoses in three days in Chicago Read more “It touches everybody, from celebrities to college students to soccer moms to inner-city kids – white, black, Hispanic, young, old, rich, poor, urban, suburban, men and women.” Among the Obama administration’s proposals were to improve training among prescribers for opiate painkillers and to expand access to medication-assisted treatment.
(17) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
(18) Rising suburban poverty The report found that the number of jobs in suburbs has stagnated over the past decade, more people are claiming jobseeker’s allowance and pension credit, and that poverty has subsequently become more concentrated in many suburban areas.
(19) In order to obtain much more generalized characteristics of the primary care, clinics located in the city, suburban district and remote places in the mountains were studied.
(20) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.