Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the head.
- adjective Located on, in, or near the head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the head in any way.
- Situated or directed toward the head; connected with or constituting the front or fore part of a body or organ: opposed to caudal: as, the cephalic surface of the liver or diaphragm; the cephalic end of a vertebra; the cephalic segment of a centiped.
- In human anatomy, the bending of the head of the embryo forward or downward upon the trunk.
- noun A remedy for headache or other disorders in the head.
- noun In phonetics, a so-called ‘head’ or ‘cerebral’ sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under
anterior . - adjective (Anat.) the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index.
- adjective a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or referring to the
head ;headlike - adjective Of, or pertaining to, the
cephalon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the head
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The first phase is also called the cephalic phase because it originates in the brain.
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Phase 1 insulin response, the so-called cephalic response, occurs before the food is even eaten.
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This is known as the cephalic phase of insulin secretion and is due to the hypothalamo-entero-insular axis which is mediated by vagal nerve1
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The proportion of breadth to length (breadth X 100)/length is termed the cephalic index or index of breadth.
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Among the thirty-two men, nine are brachycephalic -- that is, their cephalic index is greater than 80; twenty of the thirty-two are mesaticephalic, with cephalic index between 75 and 80; and only three are dolichocephalic -- that is, the cephalic index is below 75.
The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911
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If we now divide the maximum breadth by the maximum length and multiply the result by 100 we get what is known as the cephalic index of the skull.
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They are known as cephalic, gastric, and intestinal.
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They are known as cephalic, gastric, and intestinal.
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They are known as cephalic, gastric, and intestinal.
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They are known as cephalic, gastric, and intestinal.
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