CEPHALIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cephalic mean? 

• CEPHALIC (adjective)
  The adjective CEPHALIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the head

  Familiarity information: CEPHALIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEPHALIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the head

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Antonym:

caudal (constituting or relating to a tail)

Pertainym:

head (the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains)

 Context examples 

The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A vein originating in the thumb that ascends the forearm and branches into the median basilic and median cephalic veins at the elbow.

(Median Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A manual method of maneuvering the fetus from outside the mother's abdomen to convert a breech into a cephalic presentation.

(External Fetal Rotation, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein between the biceps and supinator longus muscle in the forearm that unites with the radial vein to form the cephalic vein.

(Median Cephalic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)