Appendicular Definition

ăpən-dĭkyə-lər
adjective
Of an appendix or appendage; specif., of a limb or the limbs of a vertebrate.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or consisting of an appendage or appendages, especially the limbs.
The appendicular skeleton.
American Heritage Medicine

Of or pertaining to a limb or appendage.

Wiktionary

Of or pertaining to the appendix.

Wiktionary

Origin of Appendicular

  • From Latin appendicula diminutive of appendix appendic- appendix appendix

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Appendicular Sentence Examples

  • The compound eyes of insects resemble so closely the similar organs in Crustaceans that there can hardly be reasonable doubt of their homology, and the primitively appendicular nature of the eyes in the latter class suggests that in the Hexapoda also they represent the appendages of an anterior (protocerebral) segment.

  • The most important evidence in favour of their appendicular nature is afforded by the phenomena of regeneration.

  • The relationship will help the radiographers extend their knowledge and skills to include reporting images of the appendicular skeleton.

  • But another and apparently insuperable objection may be raised - that the appendages of the ninth segment are the stylets, and that the gonapophyses cannot therefore be appendicular.

  • The leaf (phyllome) is an appendicular member only borne by a stem, but differing from it more or less obviously in form and development, though co-ordinate with it in complexity of structure.

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