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IN PART
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To some extent; in some degree; not wholly
Example:
He was partially paralyzed
Synonyms:
in part; part; partially; partly
Classified under:
Context examples:
BRCA1 and BRCA2 induce double-stranded repair of breaks using homologous recombination, in part through activation of RAD51.
(Cancer Susceptibility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Clonal proliferations arising from cutaneous hair follicles composed in part of cells with basaloid cytology.
(Basaloid Follicular Neoplasm of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A device problem that occurred in part or in total related to the patient's physiology.
(Device Failure Related to Patient Condition Evaluation Conclusion, Food and Drug Administration)
Viruses and tumors may escape immune surveillance in part through suppression of Fas-mediated apoptosis.
(Fas Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The clinical course varies and is, in part, dependent upon the severity of symptoms at presentation.
(Alcohol-Induced Wernicke-Korsakoff's Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
You are in part right, friend John, but only in part.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Ras stimulates cell cycle progression in part through Ets transcription factors that bind to cell cycle regulatory genes to activate their expression.
(Macrophage Differentiation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Surrounding the kidney in whole or in part.
(Perinephric, NCI Thesaurus)
Fanny roused herself, and replying only in part, said, “But you are only going from one set of friends to another. You are going to a very particular friend.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
