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🛌 At resting level 🔑 Basically 🌱 At the base
basally

basally

7.4
At a low resting level without being active
  • adverb
  • /ˈbeɪsəli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : basalmente
  • The heart rate remained stable basally during the resting period of the experiment.

Examples

  • Under normal conditions, the fish displayed a basally low metabolic rate, indicating less activity.

  • The level of CFH showed similar changes: it decreased both apically and basally in the cultures exposed to oxidative stress compared to the level in the control cultures.

    Academic text (2018)

  • His blood pressure was measured basally, allowing doctors to assess any fluctuations due to stress.

Surface Forms

basally positive

Morphology

basally = basal (transparent) = basal + ly

The adverb 'basally' is transparently derived from the adjective 'basal' by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly'.

Etymology

Basally comes from the word base, which goes back to the Greek word basis meaning 'foundation' or 'bottom'. Think of a 'base level' in the body that is always there even when nothing is happening, and you have the idea of basally as 'at a baseline' or the normal resting level.