distal

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I lost the distal phalange of my left thumb when I was about 6.

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Quick take

situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone

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adjective

situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone

adjective

directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for distal.

adjective

situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone

adjective

directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body

Example sentences

I lost the distal phalange of my left thumb when I was about 6.

There are proximate causes and distal causes and all kinds of causes in between and beyond.

Wish there was something for distal finger joint pains...find myself typing with a stylus.

It is a know fact that very young babies can regrow the distal tips of fingers when cut off by accident.

As a programmer who tore my right distal radial biceps tendon and had surgery to repair it, I approve this message.

It is this "clean cut" the key to spinal cord fusion, in that it allows proximally severed axons to be "fused" with their distal counterparts.

The problem is that we only rather recently realized soluble AB oligomers are the most distal causative agent.

If I could have a metal rod extending from the distal end of my tibia through skin, being without a foot would be much less annoying, and my physical abilities would improve significantly.

These changes were independent of weight change and caloric restriction, were detectable throughout the length of the gastrointestinal tract, and were most evident in the distal gut, downstream of the surgical manipulation site.

See "Forward models: Supervised learning with a distal teacher" which trains two networks in parallel, one a forward model, one an inverse model, and uses the Jacobian to circumnavigate the problematic non-convexity of the inverse model.

Proper noun examples

Distal to the "sweet spot", your hand will continue while the blade is rotated; proximal, and the distal end of the sword will tend to continue while your hand is levered backwards.