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Meanings of circumscribed in English

Subject to limits or subjected to limits.

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Delimited.

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Usage of circumscribed in English
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The term endometrioma is used when endometriosis appears as a circumscribed mass.
Pubmed
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Its power was now properly circumscribed, but had to be properly respected.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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On Thursday it was firmly circumscribed over Brexit by the High Court.
The Irish Times
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When detected, ALFMA is mostly present in circumscribed regions around the tumor.
Pubmed
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The more circumscribed became her state, the more entrancing seemed this other.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
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And he could make it good only over a very circumscribed area.
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
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Tumors were poorly circumscribed, but a focal lobular outline was always identified.
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Environment may give it birth but its roots may not be circumscribed.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the ...
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Turning toward the Earth's other side, the Moon circumscribed an accelerating orbit.
Devourer
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Your life becomes smaller and circumscribed by efforts to keep yourself safe.
Radio NZ
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The environment was circumscribed, but there were outlook, sunshine, ventilation-threegood things.
The Mintage: Being Ten Stories & One More
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Their meaning would be circumscribed, contained, their lives kept safely in vitro.
Wired
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Macroscopically the tumor was well circumscribed with a dark brown cut surface.
Pubmed
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So narrow, in fact, that room for political manoeuvre is also tightly circumscribed.
The Irish Times
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Shopping trips, lovers' trysts and football matches are all circumscribed by safety concerns.
The Guardian
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Results: All breast hamartomas had an oval-shaped and a circumscribed margin.
Pubmed
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Circumscribed through the time
Circumscribed across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common