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RIMMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a rim or a rim of a specified kind
Example:
do you wear rimmed or rimless glasses?
Classified under:
Similar:
horn-rimmed (having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either)
red-rimmed (rimmed with red)
Antonym:
rimless (lacking a rim or frame)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rim
Context examples:
Their results suggested that, while the rimless lesions generally shrank, the rimmed lesions either grew or stayed the same size and were particularly damaged.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
Patients who had four or more rimmed lesions were 1.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with progressive MS than those without rimmed lesions.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
Further analysis showed that 44 percent of patients had only rimless lesions; 34 percent had one to three rimmed lesions; and 22 percent had four or more rimmed lesions.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
When the researchers analyzed key parts of the patients’ brains, they found that patients who had four or more rimmed lesions had less white matter and smaller basal ganglia than those who had no rimmed lesions.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers peered inside the brains of hundreds of multiple sclerosis patients and found that dark rimmed spots representing ongoing, smoldering inflammation, called chronic active lesions, may be a hallmark of more aggressive and disabling forms of the disease.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
He went out of the room calling "Ewing!" and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blonde hair. He was now decently clothed in a "sport shirt" open at the neck, sneakers and duck trousers of a nebulous hue.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
