cephalad
Britishadverb
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It opens into the side rather than into the end of the duodenum, which projects cephalad as a short blind pouch, d.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
This area of molt then spreads cephalad and caudad.
From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by Jameson, E. W.
Lingula: in Aleurodidae, a more or less slender tongue or strap-shaped organ, attached cephalad within the vasiform orifice: a term proposed by Leuckart for the ligula of the bees.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
From the latter loop the intestine extends straight to the left, for a distance of about 10 mm., where it makes a small loop cephalad, lp2, and then opens to the yolk-sac, y.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
Its lumen is very large in its caudal region, figure 5I, pag, and tapers gradually cephalad until it disappears.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.
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