How to Use proximal in a Sentence

proximal

adjective

• Some of these places are proximal to towns and cities, and some are not.
  — Deboki Chakravarti, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2021
• The eyeballs may be off-limits for touching, but the parts of the face most proximal to the eyes are not.
  — Mark Changizi, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
• Still, care has to be proximal to a shelter for people to use it, physicians say.
  — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2019
• Pain in central, proximal muscles like the shoulder and thighs are more likely to be caused by a statin.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 31 July 2017
• The best-case scenario is a proximal long head of biceps tendon tear.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• After six months in space, the proximal femoral bone in the leg can ditch around 10 percent of its mass, requiring years of recovery back on the ground.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 9 Nov. 2021
• Even so, a container ship to a whale may sound like a speaker-proximal seat at a rock concert—and though the fan has chosen to be that close to the clamor, the whale has not.
  — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• The common element was that the sites were miles from the central business district but still (with the exception of Raleigh) proximal to a rail line.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• The sense of eeriness is probably a form of instinct that protects us from proximal, rather than distal, sources of danger.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2012
• The limited video is more consistent with a proximal tear.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Whatever the proximal cause was, is not even that relevant.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
• Panoptic and stern, the statue’s function was made clear in its position proximal to the former location of a whipping post.
  — Gillet Rosenblith, Slate Magazine, 23 June 2017
• Instead only the most distal ones are homologous to digit bones; the proximal radials are homologous to the wrist bones and the long bones of the palm.
  — John A. Long, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• The property is proximal to the Lake Placid area as well as to local trails and walks within the Adirondacks—the place where some say the very idea of the summer vacation (and those wooden backed Adirondack chairs in which to enjoy it) were born.
  — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• An open dislocation of the PIP (proximal interphalageal joint, the middle joint on the finger) is most common.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• That consists of cutting the tendon from its insertion into the shoulder and reattaching it to the proximal shoulder in a new location.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• These range from random chance to more proximal causes, like specific weather patterns that promote drought or floods.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
• How does the Big 3 and proximal stiffness relate to athletic performance?
  — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 14 July 2022
• The location of the fracture determines what that involves—the femoral shaft is divided into thirds: distal, middle, and proximal.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• It was found that young children have not yet fully developed their motor skills and therefore tend to rotate objects using the proximal or middle phalanges of a finger.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• Upon vaginal anesthetization, the electric waves were recorded proximal but not distal to the anesthetized area.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2010
• Each of the three is composed of two subunits: S1, the membrane distal region, including the receptor-binding and N-terminal domains, and S2, the membrane-proximal protein.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• This extends the capability of the hand and enables in-place rotation or proximal/distal transfer, for the fine positioning of objects within the gripper workspace.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Master recalls that this idea wasn’t exactly met with enthusiasm in the proximal space industry.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
• The proximal cause of Tuesday’s weakness was unclear—one theory was that the recovery of a high-profile Bitcoin ransom by the U.S. showed the token isn’t beyond official control to the extent claimed by its biggest proponents.
  — Joanna Ossinger, Fortune, 8 June 2021
• My severely disfigured proximal thumb and index finger have responded, with reduced pain and swelling.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2021
• There are two main types: an acute strain and a proximal hamstring tendinopathy, a chronic-overuse injury often related to improper movement patterns and muscle imbalances.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2019
• The most proximal market, according to investors, is probably the development of manufacturing in near-Earth orbit, on space stations.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Furious downslope winds were also the proximal culprit in that disaster, but the unusually dry vegetation conditions facilitated the fire’s rapid spread in the first place.
  — Daniel Swain, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2022
• But with congenital radioulnar synostosis, a bony bridge forms between the two instead, connecting them together due to underdevelopment of the proximal joint, which connects the radius and ulna bones at the elbow.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, SELF, 9 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024