PERIPHERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does periphery mean? 

• PERIPHERY (noun)
  The noun PERIPHERY has 1 sense:

1. the outside boundary or surface of something

  Familiarity information: PERIPHERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIPHERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outside boundary or surface of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

fringe; outer boundary; periphery

Hypernyms ("periphery" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; edge (a line determining the limits of an area)

Derivation:

peripheral (on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area)

 Context examples 

There was also evidence that the mutating virus can evolve a genome in the central nervous system that is distinct from that in the periphery.

(HIV can spread early, evolve in patients’ brains, NIH)

A neoplasm originating from vascular pericytes (cells in the periphery of vessels), for which the malignancy status has not been established.

(Hemangiopericytoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Leydig cells are also present forming clusters at the periphery of the cellular aggregates.

(Intermediate Differentiated Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Injected into the periphery of the tumor site, isosulfan blue localizes to the lymphatic system and aids in the surgical identification of tumor sentinel nodes which stain blue.

(Isosulfan blue, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign neoplasm originating from vascular pericytes (cells in the periphery of vessels).

(Benign Hemangiopericytoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It is characterized by the presence of glandular structures at the periphery and fibrous tissue at the center of the tumor.

(Breast Ductal Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A nephrogenic rest found at the periphery of the renal lobe.

(Perilobar Nephrogenic Rest, NCI Thesaurus)

The nervous tract that carries pain, temperature, and tactile signals from the periphery to the brain.

(Antero-Lateral Ascending Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

The vascular tissue is more abundant at the periphery of the tumor and contains fibrin thrombi.

(Angiolipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It appears to extend throughout the nuclear interior from the nucleolus to the nuclear pore complexes along the nuclear periphery.

(Nuclear Matrix, NCI Thesaurus)