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apical

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








ADJECTIVE
tiptop
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ADJECTIVE
uppermost
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One reason apical infections are especially concerning is that they are often difficult to detect.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026

Between three and eight weeks of age, a period that spans early childhood to adolescence, spine density increased sharply in a single region of the apical dendrite.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

The number of apical progenitor cells, which are essential for building the cerebral cortex, was significantly lower.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 17, 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

Stamens definite; anthers opening by an apical pore.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray


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