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PALISADE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("palisade" is a kind of...):

fortification; munition (defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it)

Derivation:

palisade (surround with a wall in order to fortify)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surround with a wall in order to fortify

Synonyms:

fence; fence in; palisade; surround; wall

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "palisade" is one way to...):

protect (shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "palisade"):

stockade (surround with a stockade in order to fortify)

circumvallate (surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

palisade (fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It is characterized by high mitotic activity, often accompanied by microvascular proliferation and pseudo-palisading necrosis.

(Anaplastic Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

It is characterized by the presence of small malignant cells with hyperchromatic nuclei and scant amount of cytoplasm forming lobules with peripheral palisading.

(Head and Neck Basaloid Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

I put out my hand to feel the dark mass before me: I discriminated the rough stones of a low wall—above it, something like palisades, and within, a high and prickly hedge.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is a poorly circumscribed tumor characterized by the presence of chondrocyte-like cells, nodular calcification, nuclear palisading, and in some cases osteoclastic giant cells.

(Calcifying Aponeurotic Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

A craniopharyngioma consisting of broad strands, cords and bridges of a multistratified squamous epithelium with peripheral palisading of nuclei.

(Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Morphologically these lesions are granulomatous inflammatory processes with central necrosis surrounded by palisading histiocytes.

(Granuloma Annulare, NCI Thesaurus)

Benign granulomatous disease of unknown etiology characterized by a ring of localized or disseminated papules or nodules on the skin and palisading histiocytes surrounding necrobiotic tissue resulting from altered collagen structures.

(Granuloma Annulare, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A morphologic variant of large cell lung carcinoma characterized by the presence of a solid nodular or anastomotic trabecular growth pattern, peripheral palisading, and comedo type necrosis.

(Basaloid Large Cell Lung Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic appearance consisting of small, irregular regions of necrosis surrounded by dense accumulations of tumor cells; the tumor cells are more densely packed at the edge of the necrosis than in other regions of the tumor and thus appear to palisade around the necrotic zone.

(Palisading Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)