The wrist joint is distal to the elbow joint.
Example of distal direction. Proximal and Distal describe one point relative to another. For example your knee is superior to your ankle even though both are located in the inferior half of the body. Less precisely but still occasionally used in the trunk of the body itself to indicate whether something is closer to proximal or farther away from distal something else.
From the Cambridge English Corpus The siltstones commonly contain detrital white mica flakes that are generally lacking in the sandstones and are possibly of distal. Divides the body or any of its parts into anterior and posterior portions. For example distad means in the distal direction and distad of the femur means beyond the femur in the distal direction.
MedialLateralEquivalent to towards the middle or towards the edge. Chapter 4 cephalocaudal principle. For example the outer layers of skin are superficial to deeper layers of skin.
Even left and right can cause confusion. This one tiny cell divides and expands outward to become an embryo. Giant migrating contractions are associated with transit of market over larger distances in a distal direction.
As you read the examples look at Figure above to see the location of each structure. February 26 2015 at 523 pm. Distal lateral medial superior cranial inferior caudal anterior ventral NOT SHOWN posterior dorsal Directional Terms Distal-farther from trunk Proximal-closer to trunk Lateral-away from midline Medial-closer to midline Anterior-front side in Posterior-back side in anatomical position anatomical position ventral dorsal.
The ventral arm plates are pentagonal with a wide distal edge and contiguous on proximal arm segments. When talking about bones and teeth we will need to use several terms to orient ourselves. They describe the position of a structure with reference to its origin proximal means closer to its origin distal means further away.