SPARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sparing mean? 

• SPARING (adjective)
  The adjective SPARING has 1 sense:

1. avoiding waste

  Familiarity information: SPARING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Avoiding waste

Synonyms:

economical; frugal; scotch; sparing; stinting

Context example:

'scotch' is used only informally

Similar:

thrifty (careful and diligent in the use of resources)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

I-131 Lipiodol accumulates in hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatoblastoma tumor cells, resulting in targeted cytotoxicity to tumor cells while sparing surrounding normal cells and tissues.

(iodine I 131 ethiodized oil, NCI Thesaurus)

A aminopteridine-based aldosterone antagonist with potassium-sparing diuretic activity.

(Furterene, NCI Thesaurus)

A combination preparation of the fumarate salt of a beta2-adrenergic receptor agonist and a macrolide antibiotic, with muscle-sparing and anti-cachexia effects.

(Formoterol Fumarate/Roxithromycin, NCI Thesaurus)

Limb-sparing surgery is done to help save the use and appearance of the limb.

(Limb-sparing surgery, NCI Dictionary)

The nanoliposomes facilitate the retention of the radioisotope by the tumor cells and localize the radiocytotoxicity to the tumor while sparing surrounding normal, healthy cells.

(Liposomal Rhenium Re 186, NCI Thesaurus)

DTPA may chelate metallic moieties of unbound, extracellular radioimmunotherapeutics, thereby aggregating radioimmunotherapeutics locally to higher concentrations, and improving tumor cell radiocytotoxicity, while sparing normal tissues from the radiocytotoxic effects.

(Pentetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy (VTP) with padeliporfin may allow tumor-site specific cytotoxicity while sparing adjacent normal tissues.

(Padeliporfin, NCI Thesaurus)

Tumor-cell selective expression of this toxin leads to the selective destruction of the tumor while sparing healthy, normal cells.

(BC-819 Plasmid/Polyethylenimine Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, this agent, via the approach of selective inhibition of nuclear export (SINE), restores endogenous tumor suppressing processes to selectively eliminate tumor cells while sparing normal cells.

(CRM1 Nuclear Export Inhibitor KPT-330, NCI Thesaurus)

An imidazolidinone-based aldosterone antagonist with potassium-sparing diuretic activity.

(Azolimine, NCI Thesaurus)