lokalisiert

Lokalisiert is a German participle and adjective formed from the verb lokalisieren, meaning to locate or assign to a location. In ordinary and technical language it indicates that something has been identified at a specific place or adapted to a particular locale, language, or region. The term is used across fields such as medicine, biology, and information technology.

In medicine and pathology, lokalisiert describes a condition, lesion, or disease confined to a single area rather than spread throughout the body. For example, a lokalisierter Tumor refers to a tumor that remains in one site; the opposite would be disseminiert or metastatisch.

In biology, imaging, and related sciences, the term denotes signals, expressions, or processes localized to a tissue or region. For instance, gene expression can be lokalisert in a specific organ, or an imaging study may report the lokalisierung of a feature within a region of interest.

In information technology, Lokalisation (localization) is the process of adapting software, content, or interfaces to a target language and culture. The adjective loklisiert can describe software that has already been localized, for example: Die Software ist ins Deutsche lokalisiert. The verb lokalisieren is also used in contexts such as determining the position of a device or artifact in space or data.