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Axial adj.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. "To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction."

(Anat.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other.

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Etymology of 'Axial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... current are counteracted, and the operation of the generator rendered perfect. The controller magnet is contained in a box placed on the wall or other support near the generator, and consists of a delicate double axial magnet controlling the admission of current to the regulator, upon the generator, and its action is exceedingly simple and effective. So perfect is the action that in a circuit of twenty-five to thirty lights, lights may ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

... through the thoracic esophagus if the patient's position is correct. After the levels of the aorta and left bronchus are passed the lumen of the esophagus seems to have a tendency to disappear anteriorly. The lumen must be kept in axial view and the head lowered as ...

— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... Vitruvius, iii. 1. The difficulty was, that if the triglyph was placed on the angle of the building (the practice of the Greeks) and the next triglyph was placed over the axis of the column, the metope (or panel) between these two triglyphs would be larger than the metopes between the triglyphs axial over the other columns. The Greeks solved it by reducing the width of the end intercolumniation, but later critics disliked this, and solved it by removing the end triglyph from the angle and placing it axial ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... extent of the vectors of force transmitted through the occiput from the articulation with the vertebral column and from the pull of the axial musculature. ...

— The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles • Richard C. Fox

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