Library / English Dictionary

TERMINALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the end

Example:

terminally ill

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

terminal (relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time)

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 Context examples: 

An establishment that provides palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families via physical, psychological, social and other forms of care.

(Hospice, NCI Thesaurus)

Its virion contains linear double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.

(Bacteriophage T4, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Galanin is an important neuromodulator, a 30-amino acid non-C-terminally amidated peptide that potently stimulates growth hormone secretion, inhibits cardiac vagal slowing of heart rate, abolishes sinus arrhythmia, and inhibits postprandial gastrointestinal motility.

(Galanin Receptor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the largest of the coliphages and consists of double-stranded DNA, terminally redundant, and circularly permuted.

(Bacteriophage P1, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)