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from The Century Dictionary.

  • At the apex or tip.

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  • adverb In an apical manner or direction; towards an apex.

Etymologies

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apical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Description size: 3 - 5 mm shape: cylindrical colour: dark brown recognition: similar to Rhyzopertha, but elytra apically flattened, steeply inclined, curved ridges at the sloping part; elytra look like cut off:

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  • Additionally, polarized ectocervical and colorectal explant cultures were treated apically with either gel.

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  • All tissues were challenged with HIV-1 applied apically.

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  • Cdx2 expression, and Erk2 is apically localized in the 8-cell embryo; this suggests an early role for Ras-MAPK signaling in specification of TE A schematic of trophectoderm specification in vitro and In the developing mouse embryo, the trophectoderm is segregated from the inner cell mass between the morula and blastocyst stages of development.

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  • Zoospores ovate, apically bicUiate, escaping by a usually terminal mouth at the apex of a distinct papilla, and swarm - ing separately; after encystment germinating without a second swarming stage, i. e., monoplanetic.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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