appendicular

Of or pertaining to a limb or appendage.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to a limb or appendage.
    • 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...
    • 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[…]. - 2023, Simon Mays,...
  2. Of or pertaining to the appendix.

    Synonyms: appendiceal

Origin

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

Derived

nonappendicular periappendicular