well-circumscribed

Seen from a human perspective, livelihoods are arguably the most salient aspect of a coupled human – environment system because the practices they entail involve close, fairly well-circumscribed, and critical interactions between social and natural systems in a particular locale, yet with discernible linkages to dynamics operating not only within, but also across local, regional, and global levels.

Future climate change vulnerability assessments in the Arctic 2010

It's amazing how 'happy' a mass of nervous tracts can look once you've relieved it of a large, well-circumscribed lump that had mashed it into small corner of the spinal canal.

MERRY POST-CHRISTMAS LIP-POP N A 2008

This is what we would describe as a well-circumscribed kind of pearly or waxy or shiny - looking bump that doesn't heal.

CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2004 2004

However, while normal Xist clouds in wild-type female cells are robust and well-circumscribed, those found in the RA-treated mutant males are loosely dispersed.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Janice Ahn 2010

Other metropolitan areas 'segregated housing was more often in scattered sites, but ours was just one well-circumscribed, rigidly enforced concentration of residents; think of Warsaw.

JSOnline.com 2009

The lesion was poorly circumscribed, flat, and gray, with a pink-tan, well-circumscribed scaly nodule within it.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Jeff Wang Susan Repertinger 2008

Contrast-enhanced helical CT of the abdomen demonstrated a well-circumscribed, heterogeneously but vividly enhancing mass.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Anastasia Oikonomou Athina Spanoudaki 2008