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DESCRIBED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Represented in words especially with sharpness and detail
Example:
the vividly described wars
Classified under:
Similar:
delineate; delineated; represented (represented accurately or precisely)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb describe
Context examples:
AVPR2 expression has also been described in fetal lung tissue and lung cancer associated with alternative splicing.
(Arginine Vasopressin Receptor 2, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)
In traditional Chinese medicine, a condition described as slowing or pooling of blood, which may cause pain or other symptoms.
(Blood stasis, NCI Dictionary)
A type of substance that may be described as a stoichiometric or non-stoichiometric single molecular entity and is not a protein or nucleic acid substance.
(Chemical Substance Excluding Protein or Nucleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
Risk groups are described as either standard (low) risk or high risk.
(Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk group system, NCI Dictionary)
Risk groups may be described as low risk, intermediate risk, or high risk.
(Childhood cancer risk group, NCI Dictionary)
He escaped as you have just described.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Cases with identical morphology have been described arising from the peritoneum as well.
(Borderline Papillary Serous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The formula to calculate body surface area as described by E Boyd.
(Boyd Body Surface Area Formula, NCI Thesaurus)
The carcinomatous component is usually an invasive ductal carcinoma, although all other breast adenocarcinoma subtypes have also been described.
(Breast Carcinoma with Osteoclastic Giant Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
These downhill flows, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), often have been described as possibly related to liquid water.
(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)
