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PERIPHERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The outside boundary or surface of something
Synonyms:
fringe; outer boundary; periphery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("periphery" is a kind of...):
bound; boundary; edge (a line determining the limits of an area)
Derivation:
peripheral (on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area)
Context examples:
The single primary branch bifurcates sending a peripheral process to carry sensory information from the periphery and a central branch which relays that information to the spinal cord or brain.
(Murine Dorsal Root Ganglion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A measurement of the cells containing Pappenheimer Bodies (violet or blue staining ferritin granules usually found along the periphery of the red blood cells) in a biological specimen.
(Pappenheimer Body Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
This protein and RII PKA colocalize at the cell periphery.
(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)
The use of a spinning filter mounted in a drum periphery to purify a slurry.
(Centrifugal Filtration, NCI Thesaurus)
A cell in the periphery of the pancreatic islets that secretes glucagon.
(Alpha Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
The cytoplasm is agranular, stains moderately to lightly basophilic, and often has an intensely stained periphery and a prominent perinuclear zone.
(Monoblast, NCI Thesaurus)
Gemistocytes are round to oval astrocytes with abundant, glassy, non-fibrillary cytoplasm which appears to displace the dark, angulated nucleus to the periphery of the cell.
(Gemistocytic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
A cyst located at the periphery of the meniscus.
(Meniscal Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)
Compared to paclitaxel alone, GRN1005 is able to increase the concentration of paclitaxel in the brain and is also able to specifically deliver paclitaxel to LRP-1-overexpressing tumor cells, both in the brain and in the periphery.
(LRP-1-targeted Peptide-drug Conjugate GRN1005, NCI Thesaurus)
Dolasetron blocks the activity of serotonin released from the enterochromaffin cells of the small intestine by selectively inhibiting and inactivating 5-HT3 receptors located on the nerve terminals of the vagus nerve in the periphery and centrally in the chemoreceptor trigger zone of the area postrema.
(Dolasetron, NCI Thesaurus)
