Definition of "cephalad" []

• Biology Toward the head or anterior section. (adverb)

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• "Hope you enjoyed all that yummy slow food, and your own home-made jam! misc. tidbit of the day: while searching for 'cephalad' I came across this."
• "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."
• "The blind end of the large intestine, cephalad to the opening of the small intestine, projects forward, dorsal to the gizzard, as a sort of caecum, _ce_, though this structure is generally stated to be wanting in the crocodilia, and is not seen in the next stage."