apical

IPA: ˈæpʌkʌɫ

(phonetics) A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.

Of or connected with the apex.
(botany, of a meristem) Situated at the growing tip of the plant or its roots, in comparison with intercalary growth situated between zones of permanent tissue.
(phonetics, phonology, of a sound) Produced with the tip of the tongue.

Examples of "apical" in Sentences

The condition is also known as apical ballooning syndrome ABS and stress cardiomyopathy.
Within the first week, Saudi Arabia had gathered massive humanitarian aid at the behest of apical leadership.
Plowe and his colleagues tested a vaccine that targets a molecule on the malaria parasite known as apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1).
Plants have a mechanism called apical dominance, by which axillary buds are prevented from growing at the same time as the terminal bud-the tip of the plant stem.
Here we report through ultrastructural analysis that IBC exhibits a high degree of cellular organization with polar elements such as apical/lateral positioning of E-cadherin, apical surface microvilli, and tortuous lumen-like (canalis) structures.
Organisation of the procuticle is supposedly controlled by the apical plasma membrane that forms longitudinal corrugations called apical undulae during chitin synthesis that run perpendicular to the anterior-posterior axis of the developing embryo (
Between late stage 16 and mid-stage 17 the apical plasma membrane of epidermal cells forms regular corrugations called apical undulae (au), at the tip of which chitin synthesis takes place, while secretion occurs at the valley between the corrugations (D).