tethered

tether | American Dictionary

tether
noun[ C ]
us/ˈteð·ər/
a rope, chain, or other device used to attach a person or animal to a fixed object

tether

verb[ T ]us/ˈteð·ər/
Asthma kept him tethered to an oxygen tank.

Examples of tether

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They are harmless, or at least not seriously misleading, just in so far as they can be tethered ultimately to real entities.
It should also be noted that, in our cases, the leftsided atrioventricular valve was exclusively tethered in the dominant right ventricle.
In such patients, the interventricular defect is usually small, and shunting is limited by tendinous cords tethering the bridging leaflets.
The molecule is tethered between two beads one held in the dual trap and the other a top a micropipette held by suction.
The area where the donkey is tethered is swept every 3+7 days as donkeys do not like to stand in their own waste.
Some of the tentative targets are from the reef wall while others come from returns off of the tether.
Conjugate can be tailored further using cleavable linker, tethers, solubilisers and other functional groups.
Agriculture is inherently unnatural, tethering the land to a single purpose, but some forms are more unnatural than others.
All flight tests involved anaesthetizing, tethering and stimulating the insects to fly.
For example, consider the design of a molecule that contains three substituents tethered to a single scaffold.
The other end of the molecule is tethered to a magnetic bead coated with streptavidin.
We studied the reaction to tethered earthworms of the three most common ant species found sharing domatia with earthworms.
Thus, simple methylene tethers were designed that would link these groups together and maintain the proper distance between the two fragments.
In the dry season, they are tethered in the grazing area and rotated around it.
The septal leaflet, as its name suggests, is tethered by numerous cords to the inlet component of the septal surface of the right ventricle.
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