adjective
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Having three sides
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Involving three parties
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The trilateral peace conference, between the red faction, blue faction and white faction, went nowhere.
Examples of trilateral in a Sentence
Patients with trilateral retinoblastoma who receive treatment have an average survival rate of approximately eight months, while those who remain untreated have an average survival rate of approximately one month.
It is hoped that the report of the informal, trilateral conversations might come out at the end of September.
Top of page Trilateral retinoblastoma Occasionally, a new tumor can develop in the center of the brain.
After those trilateral talks, we kept our promise and insisted that the next round of talks should include South Korea and Japan.
During the course of next week, the Prime Minister and Chancellor would have joint trilateral discussions with Ministers to discuss them.
Such a system would take the sting out of their criticism of the recent trilateral summit meeting.
Instead they suggest a sequence of trilateral initiatives without any context in the implementation of the Formal Conversations report.
Occasionally, children with retinoblastoma develop trilateral retinoblastoma, which results from the development of an independent brain tumor that forms in a part of the brain called the pineal gland.
In order for retinoblastoma to be classified as trilateral retinoblastoma, the tumor must have developed independently and not as the result of the spread of the retinal cancer.
The prognosis for trilateral retinoblastoma is quite poor.
Individuals with multiple independent tumors, bilateral retinoblastoma, or trilateral retinoblastoma are more likely to be affected with the inherited form of retinoblastoma.
Even when there is no family history, most cases of bilateral and trilateral retinoblastoma are inherited, as are most cases of unilateral, multifocal retinoblastoma.
It is also important to check for trilateral retinoblastoma.
Individuals with intraocular retinoblastoma who do not have trilateral retinoblastoma usually have a good survival rate with a 90 percent chance of disease-free survival for five years.
Trilateral retinoblastoma generally has a very poor prognosis.
Patients with trilateral retinoblastoma who are asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis may have a better prognosis then those who experience symptoms.
It may be advisable for patients with bilateral retinoblastoma or an inherited form of retinoblastoma to undergo periodic screening for the brain tumors found in trilateral retinoblastoma.
Top of page trilateral retinoblastoma Occasionally, a new tumor can develop in the center of the brain.