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[ noun ] the outside boundary or surface of something
Synonyms Used in print (Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)In type 1 , the pulmonary_vein closely follows the course of the bronchus and the pulmonary_artery from the periphery to the hilum . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)The nuclei of these fibers , as is shown in Figures 3 and 4 , showed remarkable proliferation and were closely approximated , forming a chain like structure at either the center or the periphery of the fiber . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)And so the authors conclude : `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work , even more_than the foregoing facts [ mentioned above under 1 ] , leave positively no room for doubt that the sense_of_touch , in the ordinary sense of the word , was unaffected ; or , to put the same thing in physiological terms , that the performance capacity of the tactual apparatus , from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain , - that_is , from one end to the other - was unimpaired '' . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)While the factories were always the center of the labor_market , they were often on the city 's periphery . Related terms |
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