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headward

British  
/ ˈhɛdwəd /

adjective

  1. (of river erosion) cutting backwards or upstream above the original source, which recedes

"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

adverb

  1. a variant of headwards

"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

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Diaz Artiles and her team are investigating potential countermeasures to help counteract the headward fluid shifts of SANS.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2024

Researchers understand even less about astronauts’ neurological states and whether cognition is affected by the pressure that fluids shifting headward put on the brain.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023

On flat surfaces, the wave starts with the last leg and travels headward.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 23, 2022

Tracing these ice-gouged canyons headward one will discover many rock-rimmed lakelets, some hung on precipitous mountain sides where one might be pardoned for asserting that no lake could possibly exist.

From Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park by Interior, United States Dept. of the

Streams by headward erosion at both ends of the belt of limestone and schist on which they are situated have reduced this divide to an almost imperceptible swell.

From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Sawyer-Harvey, Ruth

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