Ax"i*al (?), a.
1.
Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction.
Nichol.
2. Anat.
Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
Axial line Magnetism, the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other.
Faraday.
© Webster 1913.