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LOCALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a particular locality

Example:

it was locally decided

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

local (relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a restricted area of the body

Example:

apply this medicine topically

Synonyms:

locally; topically

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

local (affecting only a restricted part or area of the body)

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 Context examples: 

A clonal proliferation of keratinocytes in the skin that lacks locally invasive growth and metastases.

(Benign Squamous Neoplasms of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Clonal proliferations that arise in the skin that have histiocytic differentiation and lack features of locally aggressive growth or metastasis.

(Benign Histiocytic Neoplasms of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A benign, locally aggressive bone tumor, usually arising in the end of long bones or the vertebrae.

(Benign Giant Cell Tumor of Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A cutaneous neoplasm composed of cells with basaloid cytology that does not exhibit significant follicular differentiation and is not locally invasive or metastatic.

(Benign Basal Cell Tumor of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Papillary carcinoma has a tendency to recur locally, but rarely invades and metastasizes.

(Bladder Cancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A locally infiltrating, non-metastasizing angiomyxoma arising from the pelviperineal region.

(Deep "Aggressive" Angiomyxoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A locally aggressive neoplasm arising from tooth-forming tissues.

(Dentinogenic Ghost Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

DTPA may chelate metallic moieties of unbound, extracellular radioimmunotherapeutics, thereby aggregating radioimmunotherapeutics locally to higher concentrations, and improving tumor cell radiocytotoxicity, while sparing normal tissues from the radiocytotoxic effects.

(Pentetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The majority of patients present with locally advanced disease.

(Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It has not excited much attention yet, except locally.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)