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MIGRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The movement of persons from one country or locality to another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "migration"):
emigration; expatriation; out-migration (migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another))
immigration; in-migration (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))
gold rush (a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field)
Derivation:
migrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)
migrational (of or related to migration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)
Derivation:
migrate (move periodically or seasonally)
migrational (of or related to migration)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
event (something that happens at a given place and time)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Derivation:
migrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)
Context examples:
With VEGF, ANG2 may facilitate endothelial cell migration and proliferation.
(Angiopoietin-2, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in signal transduction and is involved in cell adhesion, migration and proliferation.
(BCAR1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes breast cancer anti-estrogen resistance protein 1, is involved in the mediation of signaling responses to cellular adhesion, cellular migration, growth factor stimulation, cytokine receptor engagement, and bacterial infection.
(BCAR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon topical application, recombinant human epidermal growth factor (rhEGF) may stimulate epithelial proliferation, differentiation and migration, which may result in the acceleration of epithelial regeneration and wound healing.
(Nepidermin, NCI Thesaurus)
Such stabilization can alter maintenance of tissue integration, wound healing, cellular migrations, and metastasis.
(Negative Regulation of Degradation of Adhesion Factor, NCI Thesaurus)
Neuronal migration protein doublecortin (402 aa, ~45 kDa) is encoded by the human DCX gene.
(Neuronal Migration Protein Doublecortin, NCI Thesaurus)
NO plays an important role in tumor blood flow and stimulation of angiogenesis, tumor progression, survival, migration and invasiveness.
(NG-nitro-L-arginine, NCI Thesaurus)
RON, a receptor tyrosine kinase, is overexpressed in a variety of epithelial cancer cell types and plays an important role in cellular proliferation, migration and invasion.
(Narnatumab, NCI Thesaurus)
By inhibiting several different signaling molecules that play crucial roles at various stages in tumorigenesis, this agent may inhibit tumor growth, invasion, migration and metastasis.
(Multitargeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor JNJ-26483327, NCI Thesaurus)
The spread or migration of cancer cells from one part of the body (the organ in which it first appeared) to another.
(Metastasis, NCI Thesaurus)
