Medical Definition of Genal
1. Relating to the gena, or cheek. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genal
Literary usage of Genal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Pubescence long, prominent; wing veins without setae; membrane of wings transparent;
second marginal cell unusually large; genal cones about half as long as ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1896)
"Eyes very small, distance tween them is to length of the cephalon as 10-7, or a
little »ter than the distance between a genal spine and tin; alternate :k ..."
3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1872)
"Another of the eame stage, in which the genal or cheek-spines are developed. „ 3.
Individual with one thoracic segment developed, but without the genal ..."
4. Palæontology--Invertebrate by Henry Woods (1902)
"times indistinct; facial sutures commencing on the lateral borders of the cheeks
in front of the genal angle, and continuous in front of the glabella. ..."
5. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology by Charles Doolittle Walcott, Charles Elmer Resser (1908)
"In these specimens the glabella is unusually narrow and the eyes small and near
the glabella, and the genal spine is thickened more than usual, but, ..."
6. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1858)
"Dalm.; by the greater development of its genal points, ... comprising the forms
with rounded or but slightly pointed genal angles. ..."