Definition of paraxial in English:
paraxial
adjective pəˈraksɪəlpəˈraksēəl
Anatomy Zoology Situated alongside, or on each side of, an axis, especially the central axis of the body.
Example sentencesExamples
- Myogenesis in the paraxial muscles (dorsal compartment) is dependent on contact with the neural tube and notochord, while limb and abdominal muscles (ventral compartment) are not.
- First was the relatively simple activation of motoneuron fates by sonic hedgehog from the notochord and floorplate and retinoic acid from the paraxial mesoderm.
- Rather, their paraxial mesoderm had been transformed into neural epithelia.
- Expression is maintained in dorsal paraxial regions where patterning is also intrinsic to the donor site of the graft.
- The signals determining their expression come from the adjacent paraxial mesoderm.