appendicular
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.43 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to a limb or appendage.
adj
Of or pertaining to the appendix.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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[…]."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin