Distal Injury - Sports

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How to use distal in a sentence. DISTAL definition: situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. See examples of distal used in a sentence. The terms proximal and distal are used in structures that are considered to have a beginning and an end (such as the upper limb, lower limb and blood vessels).

distal injury, They describe the position of a structure with reference to its origin – proximal means closer to its origin, distal means further away. (Definition of distal from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) In anatomy, proximal means closer to the point of attachment or closer to the trunk of the body, while distal means farther away from the point of attachment or farther from the trunk. distal in American English (ˈdɪstəl ) Origin: distant + -al: formed in contrast to proximal adjective