Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Toward the head or anterior section.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, toward the head; forward in the long axis of the body; in the opposite direction from caudad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb (Zoöl.) Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb anatomy Towards the head (or anterior extremity)

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek κεφαλή + Latin ad

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