Word Meanings - PROXIMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate. Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb. Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of

Additional info about word: PROXIMAL

1. Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate. Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb. Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal.

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• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• PROXIMATELY
  In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• CENTERING
  See 6
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.