Distal: Definition and part of speech

Distal

  1. a. Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.
  2. a. Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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