a. Also trunkal. [f. L. trunc-us TRUNK + -AL.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a trunk; situated in or affecting the trunk.
1847. Webster, Truncal, pertaining to the trunk or body.
1860. A. Phelps, Still Hour, xi. 67. A Christian’s life, so conducted, must languish, as a tree does whose fibrous roots are stripped off, leaving only its truncal roots … for its nourishment.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 651. Internal trunkal inflammations, such as pneumonia and pleurisy.
