ELABORATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elaborated mean? 

• ELABORATED (adjective)
  The adjective ELABORATED has 1 sense:

1. developed or executed with care and in minute detail

  Familiarity information: ELABORATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELABORATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Developed or executed with care and in minute detail

Synonyms:

detailed; elaborate; elaborated

Context example:

the carefully elaborated theme

Similar:

careful (exercising caution or showing care or attention)

 Context examples 

But that evening, by the light of the fire and of a single candle, the first map of the lost world was elaborated.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any of various biologically active proteins or toxins elaborated by Bordetella pertussis that cause the symptoms of whooping cough.

(Pertussis Toxin, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be attributed, in part, to the immune response to neoplasm-elaborated proteins.

(Paraneoplastic Polyneuropathy, NCI Thesaurus)

An immune-mediated response to neoplasm-elaborated proteins may be the cause of these syndromes.

(Paraneoplastic syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A soluble substance elaborated by antigen- or mitogen-stimulated T-LYMPHOCYTES which induces DNA synthesis in naive lymphocytes.

(Interleukin-2, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A class of interferon elaborated by fibroblasts.

(Interferon Beta, NCI Thesaurus)

"And it seems to me," Martin continued, "that knowledge of the land question, in turn, of all questions, for that matter, cannot be had without previous knowledge of the stuff and the constitution of life. How can we understand laws and institutions, religions and customs, without understanding, not merely the nature of the creatures that made them, but the nature of the stuff out of which the creatures are made? Is literature less human than the architecture and sculpture of Egypt? Is there one thing in the known universe that is not subject to the law of evolution? Oh, I know there is an elaborate evolution of the various arts laid down, but it seems to me to be too mechanical. The human himself is left out. The evolution of the tool, of the harp, of music and song and dance, are all beautifully elaborated; but how about the evolution of the human himself, the development of the basic and intrinsic parts that were in him before he made his first tool or gibbered his first chant? It is that which you do not consider, and which I call biology. It is biology in its largest aspects.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A 60 kD single chain protein elaborated by Corynebacterium diphtheriae that causes the sign and symptoms of diphtheria; it can be broken into two unequal fragments, the smaller (A fragment) inhibits protein synthesis and is the lethal moiety that needs the larger (B fragment) for entry into cells.

(Diphtheria Toxin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

There is one sentence in it, however—namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)