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distal

[ US /ˈdɪstəɫ/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈæl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone
  2. directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body

How To Use distal In A Sentence

  • Before scrubbing, gowning, and gloving, the surgeon usually performs a rectal examination and proctoscopy to suction out any remaining stool in the distal rectum.
  • Further subdivision of the second category is based on the width of the primary branches, which decreases distally only slightly in C. arboreus, but markedly in C. concentricus.
  • Patients were encouraged to perform mobilization of the involved ankle several times per day after unstrapping the two most distal straps.
  • There was no significant difference in percentage of cells in S phase in the distal colon of rats in both diet groups.
  • Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
  • The oral shield is oval to rounded pentagonal with the distal edge fringed by granules or low spinelets.
  • By analyzing 134 informative microsatellite markers dispersed throughout the genome on 39 meioses, we localized the king mutation to the distal region of Chromosome 5 with a peak logarithm of odds PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Twelve distal femoral condyles, proximal tibial condyles, and patellae were harvested; all soft tissue was removed.
  • The discovery of hormonal involvement in the control of pigment movements in crustacean chromatophores and distal pigment cells in the eye triggered intensive studies on the regulation of pigmentary effectors.
  • For each subject, a cast of the affected leg, which included the proximal two-thirds of the calf and the distal two-thirds of the thigh, was made by a certified orthotist and shipped to the manufacturer for custom fabrication of the brace.
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