insular in English
a stubbornly insular farming people
the movement of goods of insular origin
What this told us was that he had damage to two areas of the brain: the insular cortex and parts of the basal ganglia.
Use "insular" in a sentence
1. They are insular -- and proud of it.
2. They are insular rather than embracing.
3. Truth does far less harm than insular complacency.
4. My sentiments at heart were insular and medieval.
5. The British are often accused of being insular.
6. North Korea, by contrast, is insular, centralised and destitute.
7. Clearly, then, Laura Holmes's family is tribal, matriarchal, insular.
8. Bioko is the main island of insular Equatorial Guinea (EG)
9. But China's insular financial system has also kept it underdeveloped.
10. The British caricature themselves as a nation of insular xenophobes.
11. 1 A continental climate is different from an insular one.
12. A continental climate is different from an insular one.
13. It consists of two principal subdivisions: the dorsal or insular Claustrum located medial to the insular cortex, and the ventral Claustrum situated medial to the piriform cortex.
14. 6 A continental climate is different from an insular one.
15. But the other motivating factor is the insular nature of our country.
16. Objective : To improve the effect of diagnosis and therapy for insular gliomas.
17. Having lived in one place all his life, his views are insular.
18. Despite being spoken in continental Europe, Breton is an Insular Celtic language
19. The Brythonic languages form the other branch of the Insular Celtic languages
20. Edna McGurk came from an insular inner circle of elite Philadelphia society.
21. Mosaic landscapes with a woodland element (Bocages) Landscapes consisting of a network of small linear, insular and semi-insular wooded habitats, tree-lines, hedgerows, closely interwoven with grassy or cultivated habitats
22. That's the anterior insular cortex, the portion of the brain that processes empathy.
23. All other insular areas under the sovereignty of the United States are uninhabited.
24. One such highly significant asymmetry was that of a larger right anterior insular cortex.
25. This is the beginning of the concept of insular areas in U.S. territories.
26. Objective To assess the effect of insular cortex on cardiac damage in patients with cerebral apoplexy.
27. This neuroimaging study demonstrates that the anterior part of the insular cortex corresponding to the agranular cortex subserves emotional functions while the posterior part of the insular cortex corresponding to the granular cortex subserves ascending visceral symptoms.
28. Common Brittonic is a form of Insular Celtic, which is descended from Proto-Celtic, a hypothetical
29. The residents of this city have an insular mindset, so strangers are not always made welcome.
30. Canniest instance retinal reliant tenderising ingredients aristotelian retaliations supersonic percussion anemic cinema insular urinals arson sonar isometric eroticism …
31. It is a face that masks emotion rather than displays it, a composed face, insular, a little haughty.
32. Insular Is it because they seem to package their major sporting events in a more professional manner?
33. This strikes me as just as arrogant and insular as would be a judgment pronounced on a ghetto kid.
34. 47 rows · Anglic, Insular Germanic, or English languages encompass Old English and all the linguistic …
35. The Behinde is a member of the Vancouver Island Ranges which in turn form part of the Insular Mountains.
36. This is an insular community, its only link with the rest of the world being the lonely Glenelg road.
37. The responses were localized in dysgranular and agranular insular cortex at levels caudal to the joining of the anterior commissure.
38. Claustrum consists of two parts: 1) an insular part and 2) a temporal part between putamen and the temporal lobe
39. Cortical, thalamic, and amygdaloid projections of the rat anterior and posterior insular Cortices were examined using the anterograde transport of biocytin
40. Cortical, thalamic, and Amygdaloid projections of the rat anterior and posterior insular cortices were examined using the anterograde transport of biocytin
41. / ˌeɪˈsəʊ.ʃ ə l / not interested in forming social groups or connections with others: The book depicts an insular, distrustful, Asocial society
42. Insular Celtic languages are attested beginning around the 4th century in Ogham inscriptions, although it was clearly being spoken much earlier.
43. Breton is an Insular Celtic language spoken in Brittany in the western parts of France and is closely related to Welsh and Cornish
44. Argot consists of a specialized vocabulary that is used by a small, insular group of people, often taking the form of a clique
45. The insular cortex has regions of variable cell structure or cytoarchitecture, changing from granular in the posterior portion to agranular in the anterior portion.
46. After their conquest of England in 1066, the Normans abolished it, considering it to be “a product of insular simplicity and ignorance.”
47. The terms exclude the non-Contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii, and all other off-shore insular areas, such as American Samoa, U.S
48. Beatniks found their home in Greenwich Village, a then-downtrodden neighborhood of New York City with low rents and an insular but welcoming community.
49. The art of this period combines Insular and "barbarian" influences with a strong Byzantine influence and an aspiration to recover classical monumentality and poise.
50. Nesosilicates (from Greek νῆσος nēsos, island), or orthosilicates, have the orthosilicate ion, which constitute isolated (insular) 4− tetrahedra that are connected only by interstitial cations.