apex- +

1. The topmost point, pointed tip, extremity, or a climax.
2. The tip or top of anything.
3. The vertex of a triangle or cone.
4. The summit of a conical or triangular structure.
5. In craniometry, the highest point in the transverse vertical section of the vault of a skull.

The lowest and leftmost point of the heart represented by the left ventricle.

The tip of the tongue: "The apex linguae is the pointed, rounded, tip of the tongue which is usually resting against the incisor teeth that are at the lower front part of the mouth."

The tip of the nose.

1. A graphic recording of the movements of the chest wall produced by the apex beat of the heart.
2. A graphic recording of ultra-low-frequency precordial chest-wall movements.

Noninvasive graphic recording of cardiac pulsations from the region of the apex, usually of the left ventricle, and resembling the ventricular pressure curve.

Induced tooth root development or closure of the root apex by hard tissue deposition.

A device for determining the size and position of the apex of a tooth root.

The part of the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone surrounding the apex of a tooth.

Suture of a relaxed and prolapsed vagina to the abdominal wall.