zonipetal

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zonipetal (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Proceeding into a zone or region from outside that zone or region, as with an examination beginning in a normal body part and moving from there to a body part affected by a drug or disease.
    • 1908, Archibald Church, Diseases of the Nervous System, page 1065:
      In the former instance, in the zonipetal test, a slowly approaching stroke of a pin from the normal areas is conducted to the anesthetic region and the patient is asked to report when contact or pain ceases.

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