RADIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radially mean? 

• RADIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb RADIALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a radial manner

  Familiarity information: RADIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a radial manner

Context example:

an imaginative dispersal of the pews radially from the central focus of the pulpit

Pertainym:

radial (arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center)

 Context examples 

A benign circumscribed tumor characterized by small spindle cells, rounded hyperchromatic cells and multinucleated giant cells with radially arranged nuclei.

(Pleomorphic Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Frequently, tumor cells are arranged radially about an irregular focus of necrosis.

(Mouse Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Minute branching canals in the tooth dentin that contain filamentous protoplasmic processes of the odontoblasts and extend radially from the pulp to the dentoenamel junction.

(Dentinal Tubule, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle in the forearm running from the head of the humerus to the radial side of the wrist that flexes and radially abducts the hand.

(Flexor Carpi Radialis, NCI Thesaurus)