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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

As a result, apical progenitor cells were less able to renew themselves.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

"Surprisingly, the distal apical dendrites responses grew significantly over time becoming increasingly sensitive to inputs that violate the patterns, while the cell bodies lost their initially strong sensitivity," says Zylberberg, a computational neuroscientist.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

The three branches of this complex narrow and join at the apical, or narrow, end of the cell.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

P. 4-8 cm. soon expanded, white or grey, rugulose, glutinous; g. striately decurrent; s. 5-12 cm. base thickened, ring apical, striate, tumid; sp. 15-16 � 8-9.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George