adaxial
adjEtymology From ad- + axial.
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Biology, Botany, Natural sciences On the side that is towards the axis or central line, usually on the upper side.
- […]it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
2
adjacent to the axis, or in vertebrates the notochord.
Developmental biology
- In zebrafish, the adaxial cells are precursors to the embryonic slow muscle fibers.
- Antonyms
- abaxial
- Derived terms
- adaxialize, adaxially