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territorial (iou) and flutter-fibrillation (medicine)


territorial (iou)



territorial adjective & noun. In senses A.4, B. usu. Territorial. E17.
[Late Latin territorialis, from territorium TERRITORY: see -IAL.]
A. adjective.
a. Of or pertaining to a particular territory; limited to a district or locality; local. E17.
Architects' Journal A territorial allowance..will be paid or a car issued, as appropriate.
b. Scots Law. Of jurisdiction: extending over and restricted to a defined territory (see TERRITORY 1c). L18.
c. In Scotland, of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical district, not a parish. Freq. in territorial church, one organized to serve a particular district, esp. a poor and densely populated one, without regard to the existing parish boundaries. Now rare. E19.
a. Of, belonging to, or relating to territory or land, or the territory under the jurisdiction of a State or ruler. M18.
P. Cutting Videos..explaining the geography and territorial disputes within the country.
b. Of or pertaining to landed property. Now rare. L18.
c. Owning or having landed property; landed. Now rare. M19.
R. Congreve The territorial and moneyed aristocracy..is being brought daily into..opposition to the people.
d. Zoology. Of or pertaining to the territory defended by an animal or animals; designating an animal or species that defends its territory. E20.
Of or belonging to any of the Territories of the United States or Canada. E19.
Of or pertaining to the Territorial Army. E20.
R. Kipling We found the Territorial battalion undressin' in slow time.
Special collocations: Territorial Army in the UK, a volunteer force locally organized to provide a reserve of trained and disciplined manpower for use in an emergency (known as the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve 1967-79). territorial imperative Zoology the need to claim and defend a territory. territorial limits the limits of a State's territorial waters. Territorial Regiments the infantry regiments of the British army, each of which used to be associated in name, depot, etc., with a particular county or locality. territorial waters the area of sea under the jurisdiction of a State and within a stated distance of the shore (traditionally reckoned as three miles from low-water mark, but now extended by many States).
b. noun. A member of the Territorial Army; in pl., the Territorial Army collectively. E17.
J. Colville The lack of Training of our troops, most of whom..are inexperienced territorials.
territorially adverb E19.

flutter-fibrillation (medicine)


flutter-fibrillation -->
impure flutter
Mixture of atrial flutter (FF) waves and fibrillation (ff) waves in the electrocardiogram.

Synonym: fibrilloflutter, flutter-fibrillation.