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SPATIAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space
Example:
the spatial distribution of the population
Synonyms:
spacial; spatial
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Antonym:
nonspatial (not spatial)
Pertainym:
space (the unlimited expanse in which everything is located)
Derivation:
space (the unlimited expanse in which everything is located)
spatiality (any property relating to or occupying space)
Context examples:
CREB mutants exhibit deficiencies in spatial learning tasks, while flies overexpressing or lacking CREB show enhanced or diminished learning, respectively.
(CREB Activation Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
There are many buffers to the calcium fluctuations including membrane pumps and calcium-binding proteins that create discrete spatial control of its effectors and their targets.
(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The spatial relation of the upper and lower teeth when the jaws are closed.
(Dental Occlusion, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in vascular smooth muscle cell mitogenesis, spatial learning and neuronal survival.
(NDRG4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
An illusion of vision usually affecting spatial relations.
(Optical Illusion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Pattern Formation is a developmental morphogenetic process that establishes basic configurations of cellular organization necessary for further and accurate development of the spatial arrangements of embryonic tissue.
(Pattern Formation, NCI Thesaurus)
The structural motif of a nanoparticle that is defined by the spatial relationship of the constituent atoms.
(Nanoparticle Topology, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of the mouse anatomical structures consisting of similarly specialized cells and intercellular matrix, aggregated according to genetically determined spatial relationships, performing a specific function.
(Mouse Anatomy Concepts, NCI Thesaurus)
Their spatial and temporal boundaries are clearly defined and in just a matter of days the existing communities disappear, and new ones, composed of different organisms altogether, occupy their place.
(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)
A property of tissues such that a substance shows variable rates of diffusion in different spatial dimensions.
(Diffusion Anisotropy, NCI Thesaurus)
