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ADJACENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Near or close to but not necessarily touching
Example:
New York and adjacent cities
Classified under:
Similar:
close; near; nigh (not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances)
Derivation:
adjacency (the attribute of being so near as to be touching)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
Example:
our rooms were side by side
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
Derivation:
adjacency (the attribute of being so near as to be touching)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
Example:
neighboring cities
Synonyms:
adjacent; conterminous; contiguous; neighboring
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
connected (joined or linked together)
Derivation:
adjacency (the attribute of being so near as to be touching)
Context examples:
A neoplasm arising from the bone or articular cartilage that does not invade adjacent tissues or metastasize to other anatomic sites.
(Benign Bone Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign neoplasm arising from connective and soft tissues that does not invade adjacent tissues or metastasize to other anatomic sites.
(Benign Connective and Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Encoded by CC Cytokine Genes, Beta Chemokines are CC-type dual-cysteine chemokines with adjacent cysteine residues in their primary sequence that act as chemoattractants for lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils, but not for neutrophils.
(Beta Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)
On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Group of chemokines with adjacent cysteines that are chemoattractants for lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils but not neutrophils.
(Beta Chemokine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A carcinoma that has spread to the adrenal cortex from an adjacent or distal anatomic site.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Adrenal Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma that has spread to the adrenal medulla from an adjacent or distant anatomic site.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Adrenal Medulla, NCI Thesaurus)
The signs and symptoms result from the presence of an adenocorticotropin-secreting pituitary gland adenoma, and include enlargement of the sella turcica and pressure on the adjacent structures, and skin hyperpigmentation.
(Nelson Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
If left untreated, it may increase in size and destroy the adjacent delicate bones of the middle ear.
(Middle Ear Cholesteatoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Exhibiting or pertaining to microinvasion, the microscopic extension of malignant cells into adjacent tissue in carcinoma in situ.
(Microinvasive, NCI Thesaurus)
