# distal
## English
### Etymology

From distant +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɪs.təl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪstəl

### Adjective

distal (comparative more distal, superlative most distal)
* (anatomy, geology) Remote from the point of attachment or origin.
    Antonym: proximal
    the distal end of a bone or muscle
* (dentistry) Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.
* (linguistics) Far or farther from the speaker.

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “remote from the point, farther from the speaker”): proximal
* (antonym(s) of “dentistry”): mesial

#### Coordinate terms

* anterior
* distal
* dorsal
* lateral
* medial
* posterior
* proximal
* ventral
* anterior
* apical
* apicocoronal
* axial
* buccal
* buccoapical
* buccocervical
* buccogingival
* buccolabial
* buccolingual
* bucco-occlusal
* buccopalatal
* cervical
* coronal
* coronoapical
* distal
* distoapical
* distobuccal
* distocclusal
* distocervical
* distoclusal
* distocoronal
* distofacial
* distogingival
* distoincisal
* distolingual
* disto-occlusal
* distopalatal
* facial
* gingival
* incisal
* incisocervical
* inferior
* labial
* lingual
* linguobuccal
* linguo-occlusal
* mandibular
* maxillary
* mesial
* mesioapical
* mesiobuccal
* mesiocclusal
* mesiocervical
* mesioclusal
* mesiocoronal
* mesiodistal
* mesiofacial
* mesiogingival
* mesioincisal
* mesiolingual
* mesio-occlusal
* mesiopalatal
* occlusal
* palatal
* posterior
* proximal
* superior
* vestibular

#### Derived terms

* anterodistal
* apicodistal
* buccodistal
* caudodistal
* centralodistal
* craniodistal
* distal convoluted tubule
* distal goal
* distality
* distalization
* distally
* distalmost
* distal phalange
* distal phalanx
* distalward
* distomedial
* dorsodistal
* ectodistal
* femorodistal
* interdistal
* labiodistal
* laterodistal
* linguodistal
* mediodistal
* mesodistal
* naviculodistal
* nondistal
* palmarodistal
* plantodistal
* posterodistal
* proximodistal
* subdistal
* ultradistal
* ventrodistal

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Dalits, datils, ditals, latids

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dis.tal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

distal (feminine distale, masculine plural distaux, feminine plural distales)
* (anatomy) distal

### Further reading

* “distal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪsˈtaːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Adjective

distal (strong nominative masculine singular distaler, not comparable)
* distal

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒisˈtaw/ [d͡ʒisˈtaʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒisˈtaw/ [d͡ʒisˈtaʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /d͡ʒiʃˈtaw/ [d͡ʒiʃˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /diʃˈtal/ [diʃˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /diʃˈtal/ [diʃˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /diʃˈta.li/
* Rhymes: -al, -aw
* Hyphenation: dis‧tal

### Adjective

distal m or f (plural distais)
* (anatomy, geology) distal (remote from the point of attachment or origin)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French distal.

### Adjective

distal m or n (feminine singular distală, masculine plural distali, feminine and neuter plural distale)
* (anatomy) distal

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /disˈtal/ [d̪isˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: dis‧tal

### Adjective

distal m or f (masculine and feminine plural distales)
* (anatomy) distal

#### Derived terms

* distalmente

### Further reading

* “distal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10