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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Nearest; proximate.
  2. adj. Anatomy Nearer to a point of reference such as an origin, a point of attachment, or the midline of the body: the proximal end of a bone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Proximate; nearest; next. In anatomy, zoölogy, and botany, noting that end of a bone, limb, or organ which is nearest the point of attachment or insertion: opposed to distal and extremital. Thus, of the two rows of carpal or tarsal bones, the one next to the arm or leg is proximal, and the other is distal; of the humerus or femur the head of the bone is proximal, and its condyles are distal. See cuts under Artiodactyla and carpus.
  2. n. In zoology, the comparatively fixed or basal extremity of a limb or of an organism.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. anatomy Closer to the point of attachment or observation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.
  2. adj. Situated near the point of attachment or origin.
  3. adj. Of or pertaining to that which is proximal. Opposed to distal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. situated nearest to point of attachment or origin

Etymologies

  1. From Latin proximus, superlative form of prope ("near, nigh"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin proximus, nearest; see proximate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Seventy percent of reductions seen in colorectal cases and deaths were due to fewer cancers in the right part of the colon called the proximal colon, but the aspirin effect did not seem to reduce cancer in the lower part of the colon called the distal colon, and had only a small effect on rectal cancer, the researchers noted.”

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  • “It's called proximal - distal, dorsal - ventral, anterior - posterior.”

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  • “We chose to investigate 'proximal' prayer because that is how a lot of prayer for healing is actually practiced by Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians around the world," Brown said.”

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  • “Even psychotherapy, he suggests, can only change feelings inasmuch as it helps a person to change the "proximal" and "distal" influences on his life, which range from family and friends, to politics and work.”

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  • “Consumers are constantly balancing what Farley terms their "proximal" and their "distal" concerns.”

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  • “We chose to investigate 'proximal' prayer because that is how a lot of prayer for healing is actually practiced by Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians around the world.”

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  • “Even psychotherapy, he suggests, can only change feelings inasmuch as it helps a person to change the "proximal" and "distal" influences on his life, which range from family and friends, to politics and work. edit] Normality and illness judgements”

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  • “Caveat: Sedentary work was associated with cancers of the rectum and distal colon but not the proximal colon.”

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  1. proximate

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  1. distal

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. distal
  2. venous
  3. pelvic
  4. thoracic
  1. femoral
  2. coronary
  3. anterior
  4. symptomatic
  1. iliac
  2. mesial
  3. renal
  4. seminiferous
  1. gestational
  2. ureteral
  3. thoracoabdominal
  4. diabetic
  1. medial
  2. facial
  3. neurovascular
  4. pharyngeal
  1. peripheral

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. proximad
  2. distal
  3. submentum
  4. flexion
  5. femur
  6. interhyal
  7. lunar
  8. cnemial crest
  9. ectocalcaneal
  10. entocalcaneal
  11. hammer-toe
  12. pedicle-muscle
  13. preganglionic
  14. radicle
  15. sicula
  16. syndactalia
  17. xiphihumeralis
  18. mentomeckelian
  19. nectosome
  20. pecto-antebrachialis
  21. pinnulus
  1. proximally
  2. staurus
  3. supra-iliac
  4. supra-ilium
  5. anthostele
  6. basiophthalmite
  7. epicolumella
  8. extremital
  9. intertarsal
  10. lunatum
  11. loop of Henle
  12. triquetrum
  13. trochanter
  14. tibiotarsus
  15. proximal
  16. wrist
  17. wrist joint
  18. lunate bone
  19. head
  20. radiocarpal joint
  21. jacksonian epilepsy
  1. mortise joint
  2. ankle
  3. ankle joint
  4. articulatio radiocarpea
  5. articulatio talocruralis
  6. carpus
  7. meros
  8. navicular bone
  9. olecranon
  10. protopodite
  11. splenial bone
  12. tarsius
  13. thigh
  14. Astragalus
  15. basipodite
  16. calcaneum
  17. calycophora
  18. centrale
  19. circumduct
  20. condyle
  21. coxopodite
  1. dagger
  2. epitympanic
  3. fibulare
  4. girdle
  5. heel
  6. hip joint
  7. intermedium
  8. lucernariadæ
  9. macrochires
  10. malleus
  11. mandibular
  12. mediotarsal
  13. navicular
  14. nyctisaura
  15. origin
  16. pastern-bone
  17. pennatulaceæ
  18. physophorae
  19. pneumatophore
  20. propodialia
  21. propons
  1. radiale
  2. rhabdosteidæ
  3. scape
  4. scaphoid
  5. scapholunare
  6. semilunare
  7. stylohyal
  8. suprascapular
  9. suprastapedial
  10. surangular
  11. fulcrum
  12. gnathobase
  13. hydrula
  14. plesiometacarpal
  15. plesiometacarpi
  16. swimming-plate
  17. telemetaoarpi
  18. tarsus
  19. tibiale
  20. trochantin
  21. ulnare

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