distal

Etymology

From distant +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.təl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪstəl

Adjective

distal (comparative more distal, superlative most distal)

1. (anatomy, geology) Remote from the point of attachment or origin.

   Antonym: proximal

   the distal end of a bone or muscle

2. (dentistry) Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.
3. (linguistics) Far or farther from the speaker.

Anagrams

• Dalits, datils, ditals, latids

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.tal/

• Audio:

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Adjective

distal (feminine distale, masculine plural distaux, feminine plural distales)

1. (anatomy) distal

Further reading

• “distal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈtaːl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

distal (strong nominative masculine singular distaler, not comparable)

1. distal

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: dis‧tal

Adjective

distal m or f (plural distais)

1. (anatomy, geology) distal (remote from the point of attachment or origin)

Etymology

Borrowed from French distal.

Adjective

distal m or n (feminine singular distală, masculine plural distali, feminine and neuter plural distale)

1. (anatomy) distal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /disˈtal/ [d̪isˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dis‧tal

Adjective

distal m or f (masculine and feminine plural distales)

1. (anatomy) distal

Further reading

• “distal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10