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POPULATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnished with inhabitants
Example:
forests populated with all kinds of wild life
Classified under:
Similar:
inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb populate
Context examples:
In this recent report, the researchers demonstrated that they can modify their donut scaffold so that it consists of six concentric rings, each able to be populated with different types of neurons.
(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)
Poor quality, densely populated housing and inadequate sanitation systems may foster sandfly breeding sites and increase their access to humans.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
Applying the technique in populated areas will be a challenge, as the movement of people in and out of an area would facilitate an easier return of mosquitoes back into a previously treated area.
(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)
NOTE(S): Derived from comparing PerformedSubstanceAdministration.actualDateRange.IVLTS.DATETIME.low and PerformedStudySubjectMilestone.studyReferenceDateRange.Sponsors should define the reference period in the study metadata.This may be populated when a start date is not collected.
(Performed Substance Administration Start Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
NOTE(S): Derived from comparing PerformedSubstanceAdministration.actualDateRange.IVLTS.DATETIME.high and PerformedStudySubjectMilestone.studyReferenceDateRange.Sponsors should define the reference period in the study metadata.This may be populated when a start date is not collected.
(Performed Substance Administration End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
To achieve grey-white matter compartmentalization, the researchers cut the spongy scaffold into a donut shape and populated it with rat neurons.
(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)
