Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a limb or appendage.
Among the hypothesized diagnoses was metastatic carcinoma. In metastatic cancer, metastases are most frequent in the axial skeleton and are rare in the distal parts of the appendicular skeleton[…].
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 271 more example
The primary locomotory muscles of terrestrial mammals are appendicular, so much of the locomotory heat energy of the muscle is transferred to the environment rather than directed into the body cavities; this is not the case for ascrotal marine mammals, whose primary locomotory muscles surround the abdominal and pelvic cavities.
2001, Frances M. D. Gulland, CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf or pertaining to the appendix.
Origin
- Latinappendicis
- Englishappendicular
From appendix + -ule + -ar, from Latin appendicis, genitive of appendix.
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appendicular. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/appendicular
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