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IRREGULARLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an irregular manner
Example:
the stomach mucosa was irregularly blackened
Classified under:
Pertainym:
irregular (contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
At an uneven rate
Example:
the patient is breathing irregularly
Classified under:
Antonym:
regularly (in a regular way without variation)
Pertainym:
irregular (contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In an irregular manner
Example:
her letters arrived irregularly
Synonyms:
irregularly; on an irregular basis
Classified under:
Adverbs
Antonym:
regularly (in a regular manner)
Pertainym:
irregular (contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having an irregular form
Example:
irregularly shaped solids
Classified under:
Adverbs
Antonym:
regularly (having a regular form)
Pertainym:
irregular ((of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement)
Context examples:
In the left pocket were two black pillars irregularly shaped: we could not, without difficulty, reach the top of them, as we stood at the bottom of his pocket.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn's large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31.
(Cassini Prepares for Last Up-close Look at Hyperion, NASA)
A lymphoid cell of follicular center cell origin that has an irregularly shaped nucleus with clumped chromatin, absent nucleoli, and one or more clefts in the nuclear membrane.
(Murine Small Cleaved Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
An irregularly shaped venous space in the dura mater at either side of the sphenoid bone.
(Cavernous Sinus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A small, irregularly stellate, acidophilic cell of the adenohypophysis, having small, sparsely distributed secretory granules and secreting adrenocorticotropic hormone and b-endorphin, which are cleaved from a large prohormone called pro-opiomelanocortin.
(Corticotroph Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
An irregularly curved cavity that extends from the interventricular foramen to the splenium of the corpus callosum in the brain.
(Body of the Lateral Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)
An electrocardiographic finding of a supraventricular arrhythmia characterized by the replacement of consistent P waves by rapid oscillations or fibrillatory waves that vary in size, shape and timing and are accompanied by an irregularly irregular ventricular response.
(Atrial Fibrillation by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Microcysts are small (typically 10-50 microns in diameter), clear, irregularly shaped high refractive inclusions that form in the basal layers of the epithelium and move towards the anterior surface of the cornea, surrounding epithelial haze.
(Microcystic Corneal Edema, NCI Thesaurus)
A track about one-third of a mile (500 meters) long on Mars shows where an irregularly shaped boulder careened downhill to its current upright position, seen in a July 3, 2014, image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
(Tall boulder rolls down martian hill, lands upright, NASA)
Each lung is irregularly conical in shape, presenting a blunt upper extremity (the apex), a concave base following the curve of the diaphragm, an outer convex surface (costal surface), an inner or mediastinal surface (mediastinal surface), a thin and sharp anterior border, and a thick and rounded posterior border.
(Lung, NCI Thesaurus)
