peripheral vs primal

peripheral

noun
  • Peripheral vision. 

  • A peripheral device. 

adj
  • Related to or located in the peripheral nervous system. 

  • Unimportant. 

  • Beside the point. 

  • On the periphery or boundary. 

  • Auxiliary. 

primal

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

adj
  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

How often have the words peripheral and primal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )