Cephalic

Quick meaning: Cephalic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to the head.

Meaning

Of or relating to the head.

More Meanings

1. (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the head; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to superior.
2. Headlike; cephaloid.
3. (medicine, obsolete) A remedy that benefits the head or brain.

Example Sentences

[…] recover their Sight […] by the use of Bleeding, Purging, Blistering and Cephalics.

The objective of this study was to identify the factors predictive of the success of external cephalic version (ECV). […] The study shows that transverse foetal presentation, a senior physician operator, multiparity, as well as a non-anterior placental location are factors predictive of the success of ECV.

All that of this Form could be titled Stomachics, we have subjoin'd to this Division, because they are all of the Aromatic kind, and thereby claim equally to be Cephalics. The latter we have given, extend their Influences to the Head and whole nervous System, at the same time that they warm, comfort, and strengthen the Fibres of the Stomach, and dissipate Flatulencies, corrugate the Membranes, and promote Digestion: […]

Word Forms

• cephalick
• cephalics

Synonyms for cephalic

Depending on context, synonyms include cephalad.

Antonyms for cephalic

Common opposites include caudal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brachy, head, capital, kephalic, cervicocephalic, cephalofacial.

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