cephalad
/ (ˈsɛfəˌlæd) /
anatomy towards the head or anterior part: Compare caudad
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How to use cephalad in a sentence
Its lumen is very large in its caudal region, figure 5I, pag, and tapers gradually cephalad until it disappears.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. ReeseThe allantois, al, extends cephalad for some distance from the floor of the cloaca.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. ReeseIt is of elongated, pyriform outline, with the pointed end extending cephalad.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. ReeseIt opens into the side rather than into the end of the duodenum, which projects cephalad as a short blind pouch, d.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. ReeseThorax constricted in the middle or cephalad of the middle; anterior tarsi each three-segmented.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert Riley
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