proximally
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]proximally (comparative more proximally, superlative most proximally)
- (of causation) Immediately; most directly
- 2008 April 19, C. S. Jenkins, Daniel Nolan, “Backwards explanation”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, :
- A horticulturalist might know that scarlet pimpernels always close up before rain without having any idea whether it is increasing moisture levels, […] or whatever, that they are proximally responding to.
- (medicine) In the proximal direction: reverse of distally