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Palmar vs Dextrad - What's the difference?

palmar | dextrad |

As a proper noun palmar

is .

As an adverb dextrad is

(anatomy) toward the right side; dextrally.

palmar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (anatomy, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, May 20, Jack Clark, Touch of Death, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage="A latent print on the palmar surface of our hands and the plantar surfaces of our foot is a scan that is entirely different from the scan on the rest of our bodies. }}
  • (anatomy, and, medicine) In the direction of the palm
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, John Gray Seiler, Essentials of Hand Surgery citation
  • , passage= The long and ring superficialis tendons lie more palmar than the index and small.}}
  • (zoology) Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.
  • Antonyms

    * (toward the palmar surface) dorsal

    Hypernyms

    * volar

    See also

    * plantar * ventral

    dextrad

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Toward the right side; dextrally.
  • (Webster 1913)