cephalad
Britishadverb
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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.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
Followed cephalad, towards the posterior intestinal portal, it gradually diminishes in caliber, as did the foregut on approaching the anterior intestinal portal.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
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.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
From the ventral wall of the large intestine, at a point about one-third the distance from the cloaca to the caecum, projects ventrad and cephalad the stalk of the allantois, al.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
It passes through that region of the enteron, ph, which may be called the pre-oral gut, since it lies cephalad to the now open mouth.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
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