refers to an individual who is the only affected member of his/her family, either by chance or through a new mutation, of a birth defect to have a birth defect
An isolated example is an example of something that is not very common. They said the allegations related to an isolated case of cheating. = rare
not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard
marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
Said of an environment that prevents incoming signals even as mediated by programs in the environment
refers to an individual who is the only affected member of his/her family, either by chance or through a new mutation, of a birth defect
under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W H Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard