distal
dis tuhl
- a situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone
- a directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body
- People long injured--who've developed scar tissue at the site of the break and whose distal spinal cord (the part below the injury) often turns to mush as the old neurons die--will .
- Nosing about on a farm some 50 miles from Johannesburg in 1938, bright-eyed Robert Broom found the left side of a manlike skull, a mandible, the distal end of a humerus, the .
- The mass is expressed by the fingers without difficulty and the lower clamp is removed to allow return bleeding to flush the distal away from the heart segment and similarly .