proximally
advEtymology From proximal + -ly.
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Of causation Immediately; most directly
- A horticulturalist might know that scarlet pimpernels always close up before rain without having any idea whether it is increasing moisture levels, […] or whatever, that they are proximally responding to.2008 April 19, C. S. Jenkins, Daniel Nolan, “Backwards explanation”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
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Medicine, Sciences In the proximal direction: reverse of distally
- Derived terms
- anteroproximally, dorsoproximally, posteroproximally
- Related terms
- proximal, proximality