LOCALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locally mean? 

• LOCALLY (adverb)
  The adverb LOCALLY has 2 senses:

1. by a particular locality

2. to a restricted area of the body

  Familiarity information: LOCALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a particular locality

Context example:

it was locally decided

Pertainym:

local (relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a restricted area of the body

Synonyms:

locally; topically

Context example:

apply this medicine topically

Pertainym:

local (affecting only a restricted part or area of the body)

 Context examples 

BRMS1 may mediate metastasis suppression in breast carcinoma; locally invasive tumors that express BRMS1 are significantly less metastatic to lungs and regional lymph nodes.

(BRMS1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Careful administration of very small doses of toxin can restrict its action locally to reduce overactive muscles, such as those involved in twitching of the eyes.

(Botulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A drug used to treat metastatic or locally advanced breast cancer that has not improved after treatment with certain other anticancer drugs.

(BMS-247550, NCI Dictionary)

A slow growing, locally invasive neoplasm arising from tooth-forming tissues.

(Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Compared to systemic administration of BCNU alone, this local SR formulation is able to maintain higher drug concentrations locally over a longer period of time while minimizing exposure to other tissues.

(Carmustine Sustained-Release Implant Wafer, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare spinal tumor which is highly malignant and tends to be locally invasive of surrounding neural tissue.

(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A locally aggressive malignant neoplasm arising from odontogenic tissue.

(Ameloblastic Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It requires a wide local excision, may recur locally, but never metastasizes.

(Atypical Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mesalazine acts locally on the mucosa of the colon where it diminishes inflammation by blocking the production of arachidonic acid metabolites, including leukotrienes, prostaglandins and hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids, and other inflammatory agents.

(Balsalazide Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Clonal proliferations that arise in the skin that exhibit plasmacytic differentiation and lack locally aggressive growth or metastasis.

(Benign Plasma Cell Proliferations of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)