Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Biology Toward the head or anterior section.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In anatomy, toward the head; forward in the long axis of the body; in the opposite direction from caudad. In man it is upward, and in most animals forward; but in any case it is used without reference to the posture of the body. Thus, the carotid arteries run cephalad from the chest; the cerebrum is situated cephalad of the cerebellum; the fundus of the bladder is cephalad with reference to its neck.
Wiktionary
- adv. anatomy Towards the head (or anterior extremity)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. (Zoöl.) Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to
caudad .
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek κεφαλή + Latin ad (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hope you enjoyed all that yummy slow food, and your own home-made jam! misc. tidbit of the day: while searching for 'cephalad' I came across this.”
“Figure 4H is seventy-nine sections posterior to the last, and passes through the foregut, _ent_, just cephalad to the anterior intestinal portal and caudad to the heart.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“The blind end of the large intestine, cephalad to the opening of the small intestine, projects forward, dorsal to the gizzard, as a sort of caecum, _ce_, though this structure is generally stated to be wanting in the crocodilia, and is not seen in the next stage.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“Figure 3A is a transverse section through this embryo near the anterior end of the enteron, _ent_, which cavity, cephalad to this region, is bluntly pointed.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“The pylorus, _py_, is wide and, as has been noted in connection with figure 7, is situated far cephalad to the caudal end of the stomach.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“It extends caudad and dorsal about the same distance as the latter organ, but it extends ventrad and cephalad far beyond the boundaries of the stomach.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“Lying to one side of the stomach and duodenum, and extending cephalad beyond the end of the lung rudiment is the liver, _li_, whose outline is only roughly shown here by the broken line.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“It is of elongated, pyriform outline, with the pointed end extending cephalad.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“Followed cephalad, towards the posterior intestinal portal, it gradually diminishes in caliber, as did the foregut on approaching the anterior intestinal portal.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“The allantois, _al_, extends cephalad for some distance from the floor of the cloaca.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
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That's heady stuff
cephalopod, cephalonamancy, cephalaigic, encephalitis, aurocephalous, autocephalous, cephalic, pachycephalosaurus, brachycephalic, dolichocephalic, acephalist, hydroencephalitis and 3 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Anatomical
cephalad, rostral, caudad, mesial, medial, lateral, superior, inferior, anterior, posterior, deep, superficial and 38 more...
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