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What is a periphery?

What is a periphery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
  2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided in provinces.
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Glucocorticoids released during stress also exert profound effects on endocrine function by acting both in the periphery and in the brain.
The power structure, in particular the balance of power between the centre and the periphery was in constant need of repair.
Summer dwellings seem to have been tents weighted down by stones around the periphery.
But those who resisted British imperialism had to resist it on the colonial periphery.
The pulmonary venules then drain toward the periphery of the lobule and form pulmonary veins that travel within the interlobular septa.
In contrast, fibrosing alveolitis is a disease that starts in the periphery of the lung.

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