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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.