zonipetal

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adjective

Proceeding into a zone or region from outside that zone or region, as with an examination beginning in a normal body part and moving from there to a body part affected by a drug or disease.

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adjectivezonipetal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineProceeding into a zone or region from outside that zone or region, as with an examination beginning in a normal body part and moving from there to a body part affected by a drug or disease.

    In the former instance, in the zonipetal test, a slowly approaching stroke of a pin from the normal areas is conducted to the anesthetic region and the patient is asked to report when contact or pain ceases.

    1908, Archibald Church, Diseases of the Nervous System, page 1065

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