local
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2.1
- adjective
- /ˈloʊkəl/
- Specialized
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local
- There is a significant risk of local progression and distant disease, with 5-year survival figures being 60%.
- local anesthesia
- local excision
- local infection control
And you can do it for recording local potentials in the brain.
- And you can do it for recording local potentials in the brain.
- I bring this up because if that means that your brain can have local sleep rather than global sleep.
- But either the fatigue is mostly local.
- Both color and contrast are affected, but it's the banding and the Halos around bright objects because of the local dimming that are truly distracting.
- So viral load is increased in the plasma, it's not huge, but it may be much higher on local sites of disease.
- Cells in the body that stop responding to other cells according to local controls of negative feedbacks, become a cancer.
- That became the standard approach because it can deal with local variations.
- So it's still still, you have just a local instance of what is actual.
- It's a smooth, deterministic and local process.
- Either embrace complex numbers, or except that nature is even more non local than quantum mechanics already is.
Examples
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In the middle of a conversation with the local librarian, Maggie heard the Neil Young song.
Fiction book (1997) -
You know, pathogens have local populations within hosts.
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That became the standard approach because it can deal with local variations.
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Many projects like this are bid on gross estimates of material volume and local information available.
Academic text (1999) -
Travis, this is a local anesthetic.
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A local doctor worked, without anaesthetic, to repair my injuries.'
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When he tuned in to the local news, he again saw a weatherman.
Fiction book (1999) -
Clearly, further studies need to focus on improving local control and preventing distant metastasis.
Academic text (1999) -
Dr. Pol gives Vegas a tranquilizer and local anesthetic to numb the area.
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The doctor recommended a treatment that only affected the local area around the injury.
Synonyms
Found only in one small area
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
7
3.9
Medicine that makes a small body area lose feeling to stop pain during a medical procedure
5
1.0
A phone call made inside the same town or area, usually cheaper than a long-distance call
- Specialized
3
4.4
A loss of feeling in a small part of the body after medicine numbs it
3
1.6
A street that mainly lets people reach nearby homes and shops rather than pass through
- Specialized
1
3.5
A network that connects computers and devices in one building like an office
- Specialized
1
1.5
A street that gives direct access to houses with little through traffic
A division of local government that provides services like waste collection and road repair
- Specialized
A set of computer rules that lets local devices send secure messages and manage a network
- Specialized
A request in a program that runs inside the same process and is not sent to another computer
- Specialized
A steady radio signal made inside a radio to mix with incoming signals
- Specialized
A system that sends data over short distances without wires, like in an office
How Local
Surface Forms
Etymology
Local comes from the Latin locus ('place') and the same root as location, so when something is 'local' in the body it means it affects only one particular spot rather than the whole body.