Word Meanings - PREAXIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic side of the axis of a limb.
Related words: (words related to PREAXIAL)
- ANTERIORITY
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope. - FRONTIERSMAN
A man living on the frontier. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - FRONTIERED
Placed on the frontiers. - CEPHALIC
Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index , the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - FRONTLESSLY
Shamelessly; impudently. - FRONTED
Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton. - FRONTLET
The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - FRONTAGE
The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - FRONTIER
An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; - FRONTLESS
Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope. - FRONTON
See 2 - TRANSVERSELY
In a transverse manner. - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - CONFRONT
1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew - ANENCEPHALIC; ANENCEPHALOUS
Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B. - CONFRONTATION
Act of confronting. H. Swinburne. - DOLICHOCEPHALIC; DOLICHOCEPHALOUS
Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al, a. & n. - EFFRONTUOUSLY
Impudently. R. North. - INTERTRANSVERSE
Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.