Definition of Proctal

1. rectal [adj] - See also: rectal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proctal

procreations
procreative
procreativeness
procreator
procreators
procrustean
procrustean bed
procrustean beds
procrusteanize
procrusteanized
procrusteanizes
procrusteanizing
procryptic
procs
proctal (current term)
proctalgia
proctectomy
proctitides
proctitis
proctitises
procto-
proctocele
proctocolectomies
proctocolectomy
proctocolitis
proctocracy
proctodaea
proctodaeum
proctodaeums

Literary usage of Proctal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... a proctal pelvic fin, a heart with conal valves, would be the lowest and most primitive. Inasmuch as this character of the heart, so far as at present ..."

2. Diseases of the Dog and Their Treatment by Georg Alfred Müller, Alexander Glass (1911)
"The lower bowel is kept in place by the pcri-proctal connective tissue, the rectal ring, the levator ani and the sphincter ani. By relaxing or distending ..."

3. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration to Ante-mortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler (1908)
"... lymph glands. proctal connective tissue in the vicinity of the levator ani muscle. A. Rectum, perineum, and root of the tail. ..."

4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"... is in this case fixed to the test, and also because the anus is eccentric in the peri- proctal frame, as is the case in many other living types. ..."

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