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NEARBY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Close at hand
Example:
concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus
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Similar:
close; near; nigh (not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not far away in relative terms
Example:
the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars
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Context examples:
Cancer has spread to at least 4 but not more than 6 nearby lymph nodes.
(Dukes C colorectal cancer, NCI Dictionary)
Surgery to remove part or all of an organ or a tumor and nearby lymph nodes.
(Open resection, NCI Dictionary)
The head of the pancreas, the duodenum, a portion of the stomach, and other nearby tissues are removed.
(Pancreatoduodenectomy, NCI Dictionary)
Gene conversion events involving the CYP21A2 gene and a nearby pseudogene putatively account for many cases of steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
(CYP21A2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Nearby lymph nodes may also be removed.
(Curative surgery, NCI Dictionary)
It contains fibroblastic cells (connective tissue cells), and may spread to the other kidney or to nearby tissue.
(Congenital mesoblastic nephroma, NCI Dictionary)
A permanent tightening of the muscles, tendons, skin, and nearby tissues that causes the joints to shorten and become very stiff.
(Contracture, NCI Dictionary)
Nearby pulsars like Geminga were prime suspects.
(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)
Adenocarcinoma in situ, which occurs most often in the cervix, may become cancer and spread to nearby normal tissue.
(Adenocarcinoma in situ, NCI Dictionary)
Other important factors for fish diversity are climate stability and the availability of nutrients from fruits, branches and leaves that fall from nearby trees.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
