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BRANCHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of branching out or dividing into branches
Synonyms:
branching; fork; forking; ramification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("branching" is a kind of...):
division (the act or process of dividing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "branching"):
bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)
trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)
divarication (branching at a wide angle)
fibrillation (act or process of forming fibrils)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling the branches of a tree
Classified under:
Similar:
divergent; diverging (tending to move apart in different directions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having branches
Synonyms:
branched; branching; ramate; ramose; ramous
Classified under:
Similar:
branchy (having many branches)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb branch
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of round to spindle-shaped cells, hylanized stroma formation, thin-walled branching blood vessels, and thin bands of collagen.
(Mediastinal Solitary Fibrous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of columnar, mucin-producing epithelial cells which often form papillary projections with irregular branching and budding.
(Pancreatic Non-Invasive Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The smooth muscle shows tree-like branching.
(Peutz-Jeghers Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)
A non-neoplastic polyp that arises from the stomach and is characterized by the presence of smooth muscle branching bands, and hyperplasia with cystic dilatation of the foveolar epithelium.
(Peutz-Jeghers Polyp of the Stomach, NCI Thesaurus)
It has long branching processes and resembles neuroglia.
(Pituicyte, NCI Thesaurus)
The neoplastic columnar mucin-producing epithelial cells form papillae with irregular branching and budding.
(Pancreatic Mucinous-Cystic Neoplasm with High Grade Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
A pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm characterized by the presence of neoplastic epithelial cells that form thin-branching papillae and exhibit high grade dysplasia.
(Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm, Pancreatobiliary-Type, NCI Thesaurus)
Often form branching tubular structures, enlarged nuclei with prominent nucleolus.
(Mouse Islet Cell Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
Trachea -The cartilaginous and membranous tube descending from the larynx and branching into the right and left main bronchi.
(Murine Trachea and Bronchus, DEA-DEAIS)
A malignant tumor composed of uniform round to oval-shaped primitive nonlipogenic mesenchymal cells and a variable number of small, signet-ring lipoblasts in a prominent myxoid stroma with a characteristic branching vascular pattern.
(Myxoid Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
