Epaxial: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or co…

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and g…

A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin o…

From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, et…

An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of…

An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…

Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.

The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. Se…

Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right…

relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, a…