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cor·o·nal

 (kôr′ə-nəl, kŏr′-, kə-rō′nəl)
n.
1. A garland, wreath, or circlet for the head.
2. Linguistics A coronal consonant.
adj.
1. Of or relating to a corona, especially of the head.
2. Of, relating to, or having the direction of the coronal suture or of the plane dividing the body into front and back portions.
3. Linguistics Articulated by raising the blade of the tongue, as (t) in tip and (n) in night.
[Middle English, from Latin corōnālis, of a crown, from corōna, crown; see crown.]
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coronal

n
1. poetic a circlet for the head; crown
2. a wreath or garland
3. (Anatomy) anatomy short for coronal suture
adj
4. of or relating to a corona or coronal
5. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics a less common word for retroflex
[C16: from Late Latin corōnālis belonging to a crown]
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cor•o•nal

(n. ˈkɔr ə nl, ˈkɒr-; adj. usu. kəˈroʊn l)

n.
1. a crown; coronet.
2. a garland.
adj.
3. of or pertaining to a coronal or corona.
4. (of a speech sound) articulated with the blade of the tongue raised.
[1300–50; Middle English < Latin corōnālis= Latin corōn(a) crown + -ālis -al1]
co•ro′nal•ly, adv.
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coronal

Relating to the crown of the head.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.coronal - flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposescoronal - flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
chaplet, lei, wreath, garland
crown - a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
floral arrangement, flower arrangement - a decorative arrangement of flowers
bay wreath, laurel wreath, laurel - (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
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He has thrown off his paper cap, and you see that his hair is not thick and straight, like Adam's, but thin and wavy, allowing you to discern the exact contour of a coronal arch that predominates very decidedly over the brow.
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Chaplets too, resembling in their arrangement the strawberry coronal worn by an English peeress, and composed of intertwined leaves and blossoms, often crowned their temples; and bracelets and anklets of the same tasteful pattern were frequently to be seen.
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Rappit, the hair-dresser, with his well-anointed coronal locks tending wavily upward, like the simulated pyramid of flame on a monumental urn, seemed to her at that moment the most formidable of her contemporaries, into whose street at St.
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These could cause large coronal mass ejections that are capable of paralyzing Earth's technology.
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Computed tomography (CT) has been used traditionally for measuring the lacrimal gland dimensions in the coronal and axial planes, and it is used to assess changes in the size of the gland during the disease process (Tamboli et al., 2011; Harris et al., 2012).
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When using the recommended location as the entry point for the IM rod, the mean potential error differed significantly from the femoral trochlear groove (the potential error of IM in males in coronal plane: 0.93[degrees] [+ or -] 0.24[degrees] vs.
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Conversely, in teeth with complete root development, the increased distance from a coronal pulp injury to the apical foramen, as well as the small size of the apical foramen in mature roots, limits the main vascular supply entering the pulp.
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Adding to its intrinsic variability, there are embedded transients resulting from flares and coronal mass ejections that further complicate its dynamics and space weather impacts.
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