The phrase "affected segment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a specific part of something that has been influenced or changed, such as in discussions about data analysis, marketing, or medical conditions.
Example: "The affected segment of the population showed a significant increase in health issues following the environmental changes."
Alternatives: "impacted section" or "influenced part".
They both define atherosclerosis to be a segmental disease and thus measure changes in the affected segment relative to a proximal or distal segment of the vessel under examination which by inference is assumed to be normal and unchanged [3], [4].
Severe intractable pain caused by such conditions may require surgery to cut the nerves that supply the affected segment.
Accordingly, we have defined the "affected domain" as the domain within the unsaturated profile which is vulnerable to contamination from a source point at the soil surface, and the "affected segment" as the segment on the phreatic surface where pollutants may potentially reach the ground water aquifer.
Imaging findings are diagnostic and include faecal impaction with distended affected segment with or without proximal dilatation.
This affected segment is in discontinuity with the rest of the chest wall, leading to collapse on inspiration and expansion upon expiration [2].
The latter can be performed uneventfully if a good collateral network has been developed before IVC occlusion or if it has not affected segment III IVC as it happened in our patient [3,7-9].
Mainly, Aflac is similar to many types of big Japanese companies with a national retail reach, which are each gradually making their way back from the various disruptions, including rolling power blackouts, that have affected segments of their daily operations.
These imaging techniques present better sensitivity in detecting lesions of the middle and distal portions of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries at the level of the C1 and C2 vertebrae [1], which are the most frequently affected segments [3].
In Ed Lewis' eyes, the mutants he discovered affected "segment-specific functions" that were sequentially activated along the chromosome as one moves from anterior to posterior along the body axis (the colinearity concept now cited in elementary biology textbooks).
Affected segments are detailed in Table 3.
This might mask our results during the follow-up because an increase in plaque burden within already affected segments might not be registered.
