cephalad
Britishadverb
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From the posterior intestinal portal the intestine extends straight cephalad to the posterior end of the stomach, dorsal to which it forms a double loop, a wider one, lp3, and a narrow one, lp4.
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.
The ventral end of the entodermal wall is fused with the wall of a small cavity, li, which may be traced several sections cephalad to this plane.
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.
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.
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