proximalin a sentence
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He was cut in the proximal thumb crease.
proximal = closest to the point of attachment (in this case, of the thump to the hand)
- Many immediate and other less proximal pleasures mingled in the richness of these minutes: the fading, reddish dusk, the warm, still air saturated with the scents of dried grasses and baked earth, his limbs loosened by the day's work in the gardens, his skin smooth from his bath, the feel of his shirt and of this, his only suit.† (source)
- Evidently, as BoneMan pointed out on the wall, the human skeleton was designed to transfer shock distally to proximal skeletal structures.† (source)