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adj. Of, relating to, located at, or forming a base.

adj. Botany Located at or near the base of a plant stem, or at the base of any other plant part: basal placentation.

adj. Of primary importance; basic.

adj. Relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.

adj. In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier.

n. Any basal structure or part

adj. Relating to, or forming, the base.

Of or pertaining to the base; constituting the base; fundamental.

Pertaining to the base of a part or organ. On or near the base: as, a basal mark.

Nearest the base: as, the basal joint, or the four basal joints of an insect's antenna.

In ichthyology, of or pertaining to the basalia. See basale.

In the wings of Diptera, one of the elongate cells near the base of the wing between the second and fifth or second and sixth longitudinal veins; they are numbered, the first being the one nearest the costal margin.

n. One of the basal joints of the branches of a crinoid, bearing the radials.

n. In ichthyology, the basisphenoid.

In a typical solitary coral, as Caryophyllia, that part of the skeleton which is between the zoöid and the surface of attachment.

n. Same as genital plate (which see, under genital).

adj. especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem

adj. serving as or forming a base

adj. of primary importance

"In time, a slow and steady rise in basal cell calcium levels leads to activation of calcineurin, which in turn leads to nuclear importation of the transcription factor NFAT (Nuclear Factor of T-cells)."

basic    essential   

basal cell    basal length    basal cleavage    basal area    basal placenta    space    basal growth    basal half-line    basal ganglion    basal valve   

basal metabolism    basal reader   

foundational    fundamental   

prostatic    epithelial    medullary    neoplastic    adrenal    endometrial    follicular    cystic    high-grade    ovarian