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- adjective anatomy Running from the center of the body out towards the distal ends of appendages
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chazaud C, Rossant J (2006) Disruption of early proximodistal patterning and AVE formation in Apc mutants.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010
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The proximal surface is weakly convex and irregular, with a marked proximodistal thickening laterally toward its articulation with the distal ulna.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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Metacarpal I is short and robust, with a proximodistal length 0.77 times the length of metacarpal II and a midshaft width nearly twice that of metacarpal II (1.18 proximal width/length ratio).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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There are two types of motor development: cephalocaudal and proximodistal.
Modern Mom 2009
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