Word Meanings - PREAXIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic side of the axis of a limb.

Related words: (words related to PREAXIAL)

• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• CEPHALIC
  Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index , the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• FRONTIER
  An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
• FRONTLESS
  Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
• FRONTON
  See 2
• TRANSVERSELY
  In a transverse manner.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ANENCEPHALIC; ANENCEPHALOUS
  Without a brain; brainless. Todd & B.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• DOLICHOCEPHALIC; DOLICHOCEPHALOUS
  Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al, a. & n.
• EFFRONTUOUSLY
  Impudently. R. North.
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.