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Definition of Axial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.

2. Adjective. Relating to or attached to the axis. "Axial angle"

3. Adjective. Situated on or along or in the direction of an axis.

Definition of Axial

1. a. Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

Definition of Axial

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. ¹

2. Adjective. Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. ¹

3. Adjective. (botany) in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Axial

1. pertaining to or forming an axis [adj] : AXIALLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Axial

1. Position as it relates to the CNS. Intra-axial is within the CNS, extra-axial is outside the CNS. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Axial

axels axeman axemen axenic axenic culture axenically axenization axenizations axerophthol axes

axes of rotation axhandle axhandles axhead axheads axial (current term) axial ametropia axial aneurysm axial cataract axial current

axial filament axial hyperopia axial lobe axial lobes axial motion axial muscle axial neuritis axial pattern flap axial plane

Literary usage of Axial

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

1. The Electrical Review (1881)
"But as the magnitudes of the torsional ects of an axial current increase with the ... The sudden cessation of torsion after the st axial current in steel, ..."

2. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"C. Studies Across axial Regions.—The student will notice that all the diagrams used for this article are of parallel folding. This is because the major ..."

3. The Microscopic Determination of the Nonopaque Minerals by Esper Signius Larsen (1921)
"MEASUREMENTS OF axial ANGLES. The following methods of estimating or measuring the axial angle of mineral grains have been found most convenient by the ..."

4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"The discovery of axial gradients in rate of metabolic reactions in Planaria (Child '12, '130, 'iy) and various other forms together with a considerable body ..."

5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"In a previous chapter1 the relation between the optic axes and the axial angle ... To measure the optic axial angle, one might pivot the crystal at O and ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"By pre-axial class of innervation is meant that the roots connected with the muscles and the movements are more pre-axial than the roots connected with the ..."

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