Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Noun

The word "basal" can be used as adjective, adjective and noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

adbasal anterobasal apicobasal basal amniote basal body basal bristle basal cell basal cell carcinoma basal dicot basal ganglion basal lamina basal layer basal medium basal metabolic rate basal metabolism basal reader basal tomentum basal tubercle basal wall basality basally basalmost basaloid bibasal condylobasal corticobasal dibasal dorsobasal hypobasal inferobasal laterobasal mediobasal mesiobasal mesobasal midbasal nasobasal neurobasal nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome nonbasal palatobasal parabasal peribasal polybasal posterobasal prebasal probasal proximobasal subbasal suprabasal temporobasal transbasal tribasal unibasal ventrobasal

Context

anatomy medicine systematics

Related Terms

base basic bottom branch clade diverged elementary health life minimal minimum organism origin phylogenetic tree structure

Similar Terms

basic basic

Synonym Network

basilar elementary radical

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