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REMOVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Separate or apart in time
Example:
the remote past or future
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent
Example:
a cousin once removed
Classified under:
Similar:
distant; remote (far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb remove
Context examples:
Once the wire is in the right place, the needle is removed and the wire is left in so the doctor will know where the abnormal tissue is.
(Needle-localized biopsy, NCI Dictionary)
The researchers discovered the disease in 23 people who had not yet developed symptoms, and successfully removed all tumors in 21 of those people.
(Study finds genetic link for rare intestinal cancer, NIH)
Six participants were unable to detect any light, either because their optic nerves had been damaged or their eyes removed due to disease.
(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)
When the team removed the Stat3 gene from satellite cells, the number of satellite cells following muscle injury increased.
(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)
A procedure in which bone marrow is removed from a person, stored, and then given back to the person after intensive treatment.
(Autologous bone marrow transplantation, NCI Dictionary)
Weedon Scott bent over, removed the arm and turned the man's face upward.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We have removed, from Buckingham Street, to a pleasant little cottage very near the one I looked at, when my enthusiasm first came on.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Many GPCRs are removed from the cell surface by receptor-mediated endocytosis when they are activated.
(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
It is also used in certain patients to treat giant cell tumor of the bone that cannot be removed by surgery.
(AMG 162, NCI Dictionary)
A procedure in which blood-forming stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop) are removed, stored, and later given back to the same person.
(Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)
