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CIRCUMFERENTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does circumferential mean?
• CIRCUMFERENTIAL (adjective)
The adjective CIRCUMFERENTIAL has 1 sense:
1. lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts
Familiarity information: CIRCUMFERENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts
Context example:
circumferential highways around cities
Similar:
peripheral (on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area)
Derivation:
circumference (the boundary line encompassing an area or object)
Context examples
It is characterized by the presence of pericytes that grow in a circumferential pattern around vessels, and cytologic atypia.
(Malignant Pericytic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by circumferential proliferation of stromal cells around the ducts.
(Pericanalicular Fibroadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A circumferential measurement of the largest part of the hip.
(Hip Circumference, NCI Thesaurus)
A circumferential measurement of the head at the widest point.
(Head Circumference, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A circumferential measurement of the largest part of the forearm.
(Forearm Circumference, NCI Thesaurus)
A circumferential measurement of the head at the widest point, which is traditionally above the eyebrows.
(Head Circumference, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of pericytes that grow in a circumferential pattern around vessels.
(Benign Pericytic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
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