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distomedial

distomedial adjective: pertaining to an inside aspect, but also farther away from the center of the body.

Adjective

distomedial (comparative more distomedial, superlative most distomedial)

  1. Pertaining to an inside aspect, but also farther away from the center of the body.
    • When held vertically close to your nose, the top left quadrant of the right thumb is the most distomedial quadrant.
    • ...fifth joint with about eight distomedial setae;1983 December, Jürgen Sieg, “Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica”, in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 13, number 4, The Royal Society of New...

Forms of distomedial

comparativemore distomedial
superlativemost distomedial

Origin of distomedial

From disto- + medial.

Words formed from distomedial

Words that rhyme with distomedial

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Questions about distomedial

What does distomedial mean?
Distomedial means pertaining to an inside aspect, but also farther away from the center of the body.
What part of speech is distomedial?
Distomedial is an adjective.

Words near distomedial in the dictionary

  1. distolingual
  2. distolingually
  3. distomatoses
  4. distomatosis
  5. distome
  6. distomedial
  7. distomedially
  8. distomer
  9. distomers
  10. distomes
  11. distomesial

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