Apical
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Apical, from the Latin apex (plural apices) meaning to be at the apex or tip, may refer to:
- Apical (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features associated with the base of an organism or structure
- Apical consonant, a consonant produced with the tip of the tongue
- Apical dendrite, a type of dendrite found on pyramidal neurons
- Apical dominance
- Apical membrane, a cell biology term
- Apical pulse, the heart rate when measured with a stethoscope placed over the heart
- Apical direction, a term used in reference to a tooth
- Apical (chemistry), a position in certain molecular geometries in chemistry.
- Apical whorls of the shells of gastropods or snails, the whorls at the tip of the spire, near the apex (mollusc)
- Tip of a seed, from which the epicotyl emerges
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