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adjective

distal

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with distal, each labelled with its topic.

  • The break sits at the distal end of the forearm, just above the wrist rather than near the elbow.

    Medicine

  • Runners feel the ache in the distal calf first, closer to the heel than to the knee.

    Fitness

  • In the fossil the distal segment of the fin is missing, so only the part nearest the body survived.

    Science

  • The robot arm's distal joint, the one farthest from its base, carries the gripper and does the delicate work.

    Technology

  • A jammed finger usually swells at the distal joint, the one nearest the fingertip, after a hard pass hits it.

    Basketball

  • Fine silt settles in the distal reaches of the delta, far from the river mouth where the coarse sand drops out.

    Environment

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