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COMPARTMENTALIZED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compartmentalized mean?
• COMPARTMENTALIZED (adjective)
The adjective COMPARTMENTALIZED has 1 sense:
1. divided up into compartments or categories
Familiarity information: COMPARTMENTALIZED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COMPARTMENTALIZED (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divided up into compartments or categories
Synonyms:
compartmental; compartmentalised; compartmentalized
Context example:
most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized
Similar:
compartmented (divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units)
Context examples
The phosphorylation of CFTR by PKA disrupts the complex and leads to compartmentalized and specific signaling of the channel.
(CFTR Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
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