headward
Britishadjective
adverb
Example Sentences
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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
It should be noted that the lengthening of a valley headward is not normally the work of the permanent stream, for the permanent stream begins some distance below the head of the valley.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.
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
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