different between distal vs athetosis

English

Etymology

distant +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?l/
• Rhymes: -?st?l

Adjective

distal (comparative more distal, superlative most distal)

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

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

Antonyms

• (remote from the point): proximal
• (dentistry): mesial

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,? distal,? dorsal,? lateral,? medial,? posterior,? proximal,? ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}
• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Dalits, datils, ditals, latids

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.tal/

Adjective

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

1. (anatomy) distal

Further reading

• “distal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?ta?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

distal (not comparable)

1. distal

Declension

Portuguese

Adjective

distal m or f (plural distais, comparable)

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?tal/, [d?is?t?al]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

distal (plural distales)

1. (anatomy) distal

Further reading

• “distal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from ?????? (títh?mi).

Noun

athetosis (countable and uncountable, plural athetoses)

1. (medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.

Derived terms

• athetoid
• athetosic

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “athetosis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• ?????? in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• athetosis at OneLook Dictionary Search
• athetosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• thiasotes