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  • adverb In a polar manner
  • adverb With respect to, or in the direction of a pole

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Examples

  • Shapiro 1994 Caulobacter flagellar function, but not assembly, requires FliL, a non-polarly localized membrane protein present in all cell types.

    Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • On the contrary we pity them from the bottom of our hearts, because we know that their sufferings, however polarly remote they may be from endangering their lives in any way, and however imaginary in a purely material sense, are _to them_ real.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • ROPs are polarly localized and expression of activated dominant ROP mutants that cannot hydrolyze GTP compromises cell polarization

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010

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