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MINIMAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The least possible
Example:
a minimal charge for the service
Synonyms:
minimal; minimum
Classified under:
Similar:
borderline; marginal (of questionable or minimal quality)
negligible (so small as to be meaningless; insignificant)
nominal; token; tokenish (insignificantly small; a matter of form only ('tokenish' is informal))
stripped; stripped-down (having only essential or minimal features)
Antonym:
maximal (the greatest or most complete or best possible)
Context examples:
A cervical adenocarcinoma with minimal stromal invasion.
(Early Invasive Cervical Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
When reintroduced back to patients after autologous stem cell transplantation, CIK cells may recognize and kill tumor cells associated with minimal residual disease (MRD).
(Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
A squamous cell carcinoma with minimal stromal invasion.
(Microinvasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An acute myeloid leukemia with minimal differentiation occurring in children.
(Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Minimal Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)
The second level of severity in an ordered list based on a five-level scale of minimal, mild, moderate, marked, and severe.
(Mild, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
H19, an oncofetal, regulatory RNA, is overexpressed in certain cancer cells while its expression in normal cells is minimal or absent; it plays a key role in cancer progression, angiogenesis and metastasis.
(BC-819 Plasmid/Polyethylenimine Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
The alpha-helical BH3 domain (9 amino acids) represents a minimal death domain and is essential for the activity of pro-apoptotic members of the bcl-2 family.
(BH3 Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, this approach can be performed with minimal training, making it ideal for countries with limited health care resources, where cervical cancer is a leading cause of illness and death among women.
(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)
Bone deformities are either absent or minimal.
(Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type I, NCI Thesaurus)
The first (lowest) level of severity in an ordered list based on a five-level scale of minimal, mild, moderate, marked, and severe.
(Minimum, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
