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caudad

British  
/ ˈkɔːdæd /

adverb

  1. anatomy towards the tail or posterior part Compare cephalad

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of caudad

C19: from cauda + -ad ²

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Followed caudad the lower of these tubes divides into the two bronchial rudiments, figure 5E, lu, which, in the embryo here figured, extend through nearly one hundred sections.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

Figure 4D is through a plane sixteen sections caudad to the last.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

Figure 7G, the last of this series, represents a section through the cloaca, caudad to the urinary openings, in the plane 1060 of figure 7.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

The section is caudad to one lung and cuts the extreme tip of the other, lu.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

Its outer walls are continuous, to a considerable extent, with the tissue of the surrounding body wall, especially in the region just caudad to the plane of the present section.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

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