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Definition of Margins
1. margin [v] - See also: margin
Medical Definition of Margins
1. The area of tissue surrounding a tumour when it is removed by surgery. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Margins
Literary usage of Margins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lvs. 5-5% ft. long, dark green above, paler beneath ; segments lanceolate,
acuminate, 2 ft. long, 3%-3% in. wide, their margins entire, spiny in young ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1896)
"About all these lakes is found a succession of terraces or old lake-margins.
The highest of these marks the highest water-level, and is the oldest ..."
3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... drupe ovate, acute, compressed, with the margins somewhat winged. ... obtuse,
finely punctate-glandular beneath, the thick margins revolute : umbels ..."
4. American Book Prices Current (1917)
"( lacking part of title-page, first and last leaves mounted. blank portion of i
cut away, water-stains and old writing on some margins), Learmont, A., ..."
5. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The margins of wings.—Most insect wings are more or less triangular in outline;
they, therefore, present three margins: the costal margin or costa (Fig. ..."
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