cephalad
Britishadverb
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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 C. M. Reese
In the region represented by this figure the connective tissue layers of the trachea and oesophagus are continuous with each other, but cephalad and caudad to this point they are distinct, though sometimes in contact.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
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 C. M. Reese
A slight variation in the above process occurred in some specimens in which the lateral strips joined immediately cephalad of the tail instead of at the center of the dorsum.
From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by E. W. Jameson
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 C. M. Reese
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