CAUDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cauda mean? 

• CAUDA (noun)
  The noun CAUDA has 1 sense:

1. any taillike structure

  Familiarity information: CAUDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any taillike structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cauda" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Derivation:

caudal (resembling a tail)

caudal (constituting or relating to a tail)

 Context examples 

It arises almost exclusively in the conus medullaris, cauda equina, and filum terminale of the spinal cord.

(Myxopapillary Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare neurologic disorder caused by impingement of the nerve roots of the cauda equina secondary to disc herniation, spinal stenosis, vertebral fracture, neoplasm or infection.

(Cauda Equina Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of a drug within the cauda equina.

(Intracaudal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare benign adipose tissue neoplasm of the central nervous system frequently found in midline locations such as the corpus callosum, the quadrigeminal plate, the hypothalamus, the spinal canal or the cauda equina.

(Central Nervous System Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration within the cauda equina.

(Intracaudal Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)