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apical

[ey-pi-kuhl, ap-i-] / ˈeɪ pɪ kəl, ˈæp ɪ- /








ADJECTIVE
tiptop
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ADJECTIVE
uppermost
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Using high-resolution microscopy, the team closely tracked how apical progenitor cells divided.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

To explore these effects, researchers induced apical periodontitis in 30 rats and divided them into three groups.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025

They wanted to know if the distal apical dendrites processed visual stimuli differently from their cell bodies when the signals both matched and violated expected patterns.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

The apical complex is located at the narrow end.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

It is closed except at the apex, and contains the female spikelet, the stalks of the male inflorescence and the long styles emerging through the small apical orifice.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various