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EXPANDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increased in extent or size or bulk or scope
Classified under:
Antonym:
contracted (reduced in size or pulled together)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb expand
Context examples:
Shifts in tropical atmospheric circulation known as Hadley circulation led to changes in climate and vegetation, especially grasses, which expanded the mammals' range.
(Six million years ago, atmospheric shifts led to increased diversity of grassland mammals, National Science Foundation)
Autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010 is used in cellular therapy.
(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Dictionary)
Expanded access allows a patient to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved cancer therapies when no other treatment option exists.
(Expanded access trial, NCI Dictionary)
After transduction, transgenic EBV-CTLs are expanded on EBV-LCLs.
(Autologous TGFbeta-Resistant HER2/EBV-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
They were stiff with their long and jolting drive from Whitcross, and chilled with the frosty night air; but their pleasant countenances expanded to the cheerful firelight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Studies are expanded controlled and uncontrolled trials.
(phase III trial, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The expanded, thin structure on either side of the midrib of a leaf.
(Blade, Food and Drug Administration)
This was a god indeed, a love-god, a warm and radiant god, in whose light White Fang's nature expanded as a flower expands under the sun.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The expansion of a cell line in multiple vessels followed by the harvesting and pooling of the expanded culture into one vessel for holding or storage.
(Cell Culture Pooling, NCI Thesaurus)
When injected back into the patient, autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010 may differentiate into various mesenchyme-derived cell types and, in some instances, may augment bone marrow engraftment after whole-body irradiation.
(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Thesaurus)
