Radial: A word with diverse meanings in medicine and the biomedical sciences: 1  Pertaining to the radius, the smaller bone in the forearm. 2  The radial artery is so named because of its proximity to the radius. 3  Pertaining to the radius of a circle.
A 3D model of ethyne (acetylene), the simplest alkyne. In organic chemistry, an alkyne is an unsaturated hydrocarbon containing at least one carbonâcarbon triple bond. The simplest acyclic alkynes with only one triple bond and no other functional groups form a homologous series with the general chemical formula CnH2nâ2.
The Smallest Woman in the World. A tale of love and vanity by the great 20th-century Brazilian writer, from the new âComplete Storiesâ. In the depths of Equatorial Africa the French explorer Marcel Pretre, hunter and man of the world, came upon a pygmy tribe of surprising smallness.