cephalad
Britishadverb
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The molt patch extends caudad toward the tail and cephalad toward the chin.
From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by Jameson, E. W.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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