Definition of Truncal

1. a. Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.

Definition of Truncal

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the trunk (of the body) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Truncal

1. relating to the trunk [adj]

Medical Definition of Truncal

1. Relating to the trunk of the body or to any arterial or nerve trunk, etc. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truncal

trumpetfishes
trumpeting
trumpetings
trumpetless
trumpetlike
trumpetress
trumpetresses
trumpets
trumpetweed
trumpetwood
trumpie
trumping
trumpings
trumplike
trumps
truncal (current term)
truncate
truncate ascertainment
truncated
truncated cone
truncated icosahedra
truncated icosahedron
truncated icosahedrons
truncated pyramid
truncates
truncating
truncation
truncation error
truncations
trunch

Literary usage of Truncal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The third body region or trunk may attain a. great length, one or iwo feet, or even more, and is also muscular, but the truncal muscles arc of subordinate ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"There are reasons fur supposing that the truncal crx'lom was at one time provided with pore-canals, but supposed vestiges of these structures have only been ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"But he thought that there would be more apt to be partial disturbance in a truncal neuritis than in a dermal. DR. PETERSON asked the President if the tendon ..."

4. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"Munk especially regards the frontal lobes as the seat of the innerva- tiou of the truncal muscles, Horsley and Schafer the marginal convolution, ..."

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