appendicular
Americanadjective
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relating to an appendage or appendicle
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anatomy of or relating to the vermiform appendix
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Origin of appendicular
1645–55; < Latin appendicul ( a ) appendicle + -ar 1
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The human skeleton is an endoskeleton that is composed of the axial and appendicular skeleton.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Some axial muscles cross over to the appendicular skeleton.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Attached to this are the limbs, whose 126 bones constitute the appendicular skeleton.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Endochondral ossification, the process that converts the hyaline cartilage model into bone, begins in most appendicular bones by the twelfth fetal week.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
But another and apparently insuperable objection may be raised—that the appendages of the ninth segment are the stylets, and that the gonapophyses cannot therefore be appendicular.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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