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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Biology Toward the head or anterior section.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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

  1. adv. anatomy Towards the head (or anterior extremity)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. (Zoöl.) Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek κεφαλή + Latin ad (Wiktionary)

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