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1878 Lancet 28 Sept. 440/2 Croft's and Wagstaffe's cases are noteworthy as having been treated by an elastic bandage only applied to the whole limb—i.e., without the usual addition of the compressor proximally.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 581 The colour change beginning at the tips and advancing proximally.

1960 M. Hines in G. H. Bourne Struct. & Function Muscle II. xi. 508 A few proximally placed muscles retain the ability to initiate movements.

1975 Nature 8 May 157/1 The flagellum of this organism propagates waves both distally and proximally in common with other trypanosomes.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory ix. 940 New organisms of the colony arise proximally, pushing older organisms to progressively more distal positions.

1897 H. S. Williams in Harper's Mag. June 942/2 Thanks to Lamarck and Wallace and Darwin, their development, through the operation of those ‘secondary causes’ which we call laws of nature, has been proximally explained.

1962 J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson tr. M. Heidegger Being & Time 25 Heidegger often uses ‘zunächst’ in the sense of ‘most closely’, when he is describing the most ‘natural’ and ‘obvious’ experiences which we have at an uncritical and pre-philosophical level. We have ventured to translate this Heideggerian sense of ‘zunächst’ as ‘proximally’.

1997 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 July 17/2 Children learn in two ways: through being taught and ‘proximally’, through and by working with other children.