Crossword-Solution: PROXIMAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proximal | a. | Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate. |
| Proximal | a. | Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb. |
| Proximal | a. | Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PROXIMAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BODY limb, toward the attached end of | 1 answer |
| Nearest or next | 1 answer |
| Situated close (to) | 1 answer |
| TOWARD the attached end of a body structure | 1 answer |
| TOWARD the body | 3 answers |
| AT OR NEAREST TO THE TOP | 10 answers |
| Nearest | 10 answers |
| BEAVER'S NEAREST RELATIVE | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PROXIMAL (5)
After he had made his “mats” he continued with the other kind of gold fillings, such as he would have occasion to use during the week; “blocks” to be used in large proximal cavities, made by folding the tape on itself a number of times and then shaping it with the soldering pliers; “cylinders” for commencing fillings, which he formed by rolling the tape around a needle called a “broach,” cutting it afterwards into different lengths.
The middle and ring fingers of the supernumerary hand were webbed as far as the proximal joints, and the movements of this hand were stiff and imperfect.
The distal end of the ureter was ligated, and the proximal end implanted in the bladder according to Van Hook's method, which consists in tying the lowered end of the ureter, then making a slit into it, and invaginating the upper end into the lower through this slit.
Therefore the hand is usually in the so-called interosseal position, with flexion of the proximal and extension of the middle and distal phalanges.
The valves in the veins would seem to show conclusively that the venous current did not come from the heart, and surgeons must have observed thousands of times the every-day phenomenon of congested veins at the distal extremity of a limb around which a ligature or constriction of any kind had been placed, and the simultaneous depletion of the vessels at the proximal points above the ligature.
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1980–2003).