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Meaning of "apical" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APICAL

From New Latin apicālis, from Latin: apex.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF APICAL

apical  [ˈæpɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apical is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES APICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apical

Apical may refer to: ▪ Apical ancestor, refers to the last common ancestor of an entire group, such as a species or a clan ▪ Apical, an anatomical term of location for features located opposite the base of an organism or structure ▪ Apical, a position in certain molecular geometries in chemistry ▪ Apical, direction towards the root tip of a tooth ▪ Apical consonant, a consonant produced with the tip of the tongue ▪ Apical dendrite, a type of dendrite found on pyramidal neurons ▪ Apical dominance, the phenomenon whereby the main central stem of a plant is dominant over other side stems ▪ Apical membrane, in cell biology the surface of a plasma membrane that faces inward to the lumen...

Definition of apical in the English dictionary

The definition of apical in the dictionary is of, at, or being the apex. Other definition of apical is of or denoting a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue, such as or.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APICAL


archetypical
ˌɑːkɪˈtɪpɪkəl
atypical
eɪˈtɪpɪkəl
intertropical
ˌɪntəˈtrɒpɪkəl
microscopical
ˌmaɪkrəˈskɒpɪkəl
Neotropical
ˌniːəʊˈtrɒpɪkəl
nontypical
ˌnɒnˈtɪpɪkəl
pantropical
pænˈtrɒpɪkəl
phenotypical
ˌfiːnəʊˈtɪpɪkəl
pical
ˈpɪkəl
pickle
ˈpɪkəl
picul
ˈpɪkəl
prototypical
ˌprəʊtəʊˈtɪpɪkəl
semitropical
ˌsɛmɪˈtrɒpɪkəl
stereotypical
ˌsterɪəˈtɪpɪkəl
subapical
sʌbˈæpɪkəl
subtropical
sʌbˈtrɒpɪkəl
topical
ˈtɒpɪkəl
tropical
ˈtrɒpɪkəl
typical
ˈtɪpɪkəl
untypical
ʌnˈtɪpɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APICAL

apiaceous
apian
apiarian
apiaries
apiarist
apiary
apically
apices
apician
apiculate
apicultural
apiculture
apiculturist
apiculus
apiece
Apiezon
apimania
apiol
apiology

WORDS THAT END LIKE APICAL

chemical
epical
extratropical
genotypical
haruspical
heliotropical
homeotypical
homoeotypical
hydroscopical
hygroscopical
hypermetropical
metoposcopical
necroscopical
nontropical
orthoepical
philanthropical
phonotypical
spectroscopical
stroboscopical
thaumatropical
thermoscopical

Synonyms and antonyms of apical in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «apical» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APICAL

Find out the translation of apical to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of apical from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «apical» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apical
570 millions of speakers

English

apical
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शिखर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قمية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

верхушечный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apical
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অগ্রস্থিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apicale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Apikal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

apikal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

頂点の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

혀끝
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apikal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நுனி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tepe
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

apicale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

koniuszka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

верхівковий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apical
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακραίο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

apikale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

apikal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

apikal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of apical

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APICAL»

The term «apical» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.479 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APICAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «apical» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «apical» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about apical

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APICAL»

Discover the use of apical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to apical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Esau's Plant Anatomy: Meristems, Cells, and Tissues of the ...
The term apical meristem refers to a group of meristematic cells at the apex of shoot and root that by cell division lay the foundation of the primary plant body. As indicated in Chapter 5, meristems are composed of initials, which perpetuate the ...
Ray F. Evert, 2006
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Pocket Atlas of Endodontics
Instrumentation should be performed down to the narrowest point of the root canal, the apical constriction. This provides the most favorable conditions for endodontic success. In most cases, this constriction (the physiologic foramen) ...
Rudolf Beer, Michael A. Baumann, Andrej Kielbassa (M.), 2006
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Pocket Atlas of Dental Radiology
Only when the advancing pulpal inflammation exits the apical foramen will radiographic signs become evident, including a widened periodontal ligament space and a poorly demarcated periapical radiolucency, the latter caused by ...
Friedrich A. Pasler, Heiko Visser, 2011
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The Small GTPase Rab14 Regulates Arf1 Activation and Apical ...
CHAPTER TWO: RAB14 REGULATES APICAL TARGETING IN POLARIZED EPITHELIAL CELLS Abstract Epithelial cells display distinct apical and basolateral membrane domains, and maintenance of this asymmetry is essential to the ...
Khameeka Nicole Kitt, 2008
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Methods in Plant Cell Biology
By taking a series of optical sections throughout the entire apex, it is possible to determine cell number in the apical meristem. The issue of cell number is complicated, however, by the question of whether a cell is part of the apical meristem, ...
David W. Galbraith, Hans J. Bohnert, Don P. Bourque, 1995
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Culture of Apical Meristems and Embryonic Shoots of Picea ...
We have used the procedure described below to isolate about 4,000 apical domes, mostly from Picea abies seedlings : Soak some 7- or 9-cm. circles of high wet-strength filter paper in distilled water in a large Petri dish. Drain, leaving a slight ...
John Albert Romberger, Ray Judson Varnell, C. A. Tabor, 1970
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Physiology of Woody Plants
If both Lammas and proleptic shoots form on a branch they often compete for apical dominance. Less well known than Lammas or proleptic shoots are late- season sylleptic shoots, which form when axillary buds of elongating shoots develop ...
Stephen G. Pallardy, 2010
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New species of North American bees of the genus Dufourea ...
Terga with very sparse pits, those on tergum I, two to three pit widths apart in densest areas, nearly absent medially, in front of apical impunctate border, those on II slightly more than one pit width apart mediobasally, much sparser in front of  ...
George Edward Bohart, United States. Science and Education Administration, 1980
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In-vitro Evaluation of Dye Leakage of an MTA Apical Barrier ...
ABSTRACT In-Vitro Evaluation of Dye Leakage of an MTA Apical Barrier at Varying Setting Times Mark Daniel Richcy The purpose of this study was to compare the dye leakage of an MTA apical barrier after immediate placement, 1 hour, ...
Mark Daniel Richey, 2008
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11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological ...
In order to improve the measurement procedure, direct current was replaced by alternating current and impedance was measured on single frequency in order to calculate the position of apical constriction. Problems with single frequency ...
Tomaz Jarm, Peter Kramar, Anze Zupanic, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term apical is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ministerial group 'connives' for premature ouster of SKIMS director
DrZargar's name was cleared by the apical selection committee headed by former Chief Secretary, MadhavLal, following superannuation of Dr ... «GreaterKashmir.com, Jul 15»
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EC135 T2+ Twin-Engine Military Training Helicopter
It can be additionally fitted with a wire-strike protection system, single-blade windshield wiper system, anti-collision light for vertical fin, and Apical emergency ... «Army Technology, Jul 15»
3
This week in the emerging Age of Touchlessness
It joins a growing category of companies — including RetailNext, Quividi, Apical, and Pecabu — that want to become Google Analytics for the ... «VentureBeat, Jul 15»
4
Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography analysis of …
Experimental studies on animal models of RD showed a number of degenerative changes of the RPE, loss of apical villi, disappearance of ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
The hemodynamic patterns in hypertensive men and women of …
Two-dimensional echocardiography was performed using standard parasternal, apical and subcostal views (2.5 MHz transducer; VIVID S6 GE ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
6
miR-16 rescues F508del-CFTR function in native cystic fibrosis …
Importantly, miR-16 promotes functional rescue of the cyclic AMP-activated apical F508del-CFTR chloride channel in primary lung epithelial ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
7
Post-radiotherapy prostate biopsies reveal heightened apex …
In 38 patients who had a positive post-treatment biopsy, there was change in the rate of apical positivity before and after treatment (76 vs. 71% ... «UroToday, Jul 15»
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Scientists extract anti-cancer tea capsule
"As apical bud and subtending two to three lead shoots are used for making quality tea, the focus was to use the underutilized tea plant parts ... «Times of India, Jun 15»
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Three-dimensional endodontic obturation the safest and easiest way …
Strictly speaking, the most apical placement of the gutta-percha has not been thermoplasticized and is essentially a single-point fill. «Dentistry IQ, Jun 15»
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PSC selections: PDP-BJP govt too prefers politics over norms
Under it, the search committee headed by the Chief Secretary has to finalize a list of probable and forward it to the Apical Committee headed by ... «GreaterKashmir.com, Jun 15»

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