TRUNCATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truncated mean? 

• TRUNCATED (adjective)
  The adjective TRUNCATED has 2 senses:

1. cut short in duration

2. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

  Familiarity information: TRUNCATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUNCATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut short in duration

Synonyms:

abbreviated; shortened; truncated

Context example:

an unsatisfactory truncated conversation

Similar:

short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off

Synonyms:

truncate; truncated

Context example:

a truncated pyramid

Similar:

short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)

 Context examples 

A single-chain immunotoxin consisting of Fv fragments of the BR96 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) and a truncated Pseudomonas exotoxin (PE40) that lacking the binding domain.

(BR96 sFv-PE40, NCI Thesaurus)

Truncated and mutated forms of the gene can be a factor in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

(IKZF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A clonal disorder characterized by the secretion of a truncated gamma chain.

(Gamma Heavy Chain Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Truncated forms of the protein are involved in the pathology of maturity-onset of diabetes, type 5.

(Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-Beta, NCI Thesaurus)

The truncated form of KISS1, metastin, inhibits chemotaxis and invasion of GPR54-transfected CHO cells in vitro and attenuates pulmonary metastasis of GPR54-transfected B16-BL6 melanomas in vivo.

(G Protein-Coupled Receptor 54, NCI Thesaurus)

A truncated transcript is generated utilizing a start site in a far downstream exon.

(FPS-FES Oncoprotein, NCI Thesaurus)

Insertion or deletion of one, two or four nucleotides that alters the correct reading frame of an amino acid-coding DNA sequence, resulting in an amino acid sequence that is changed or truncated.

(Frameshift Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion protein consisting of the cytokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) linked to a truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin with potential antineoplastic activity.

(IL4-Pseudomonas Exotoxin Fusion Protein PRX321, NCI Thesaurus)

Deletions in the heavy chain genes on chromosome 14 disrupt the synthesis and secretion of properly functioning antibodies resulting in monoclonal populations of truncated heavy chains without covalently bonded light chains.

(Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Deletion, NCI Thesaurus)

Oncogene ETS was originally discovered as a chimeric component, along with a truncated v-myb gene, in the genome of E26, an avian leukosis virus.

(Oncogene ETS, NCI Thesaurus)