appendicular

English

From appendix +‎ -ule +‎ -ar, from Latin appendicis, genitive of appendix.

appendicular (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a limb or appendage.
- 2001, Frances M. D. Gulland, CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine:
  The primary locomotory muscles of terrestrial mammals are appendicular, so much of the locomotory heat energy of the muscle is transferred to the environment rather than directed into the body cavities; this is not the case for ascrotal marine mammals, whose primary locomotory muscles surround the abdominal and pelvic cavities.
- 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27:
  Among the hypothesized diagnoses was metastatic carcinoma. In metastatic cancer, metastases are most frequent in the axial skeleton and are rare in the distal parts of the appendicular skeleton […].
Of or pertaining to the appendix.
Synonym: appendiceal

of or pertaining to the appendix — see appendiceal