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cephalic
1[suh-fal-ik]
adjective
of or relating to the head.
situated or directed toward the head.
-cephalic
2variant of -cephalous.
brachycephalic.
cephalic
1/ ɪˈæɪ /
adjective
of or relating to the head
situated in, on, or near the head
-cephalic
2combining form
indicating skull or head; -headed
brachycephalic
cephalic
Located on or near the head.
Other Word Forms
- cephalically adverb
- postcephalic adjective
- procephalic adjective
- uncephalic adjective
- -cephaly combining form
Word History and Origins
Origin of cephalic2
Word History and Origins
Origin of cephalic1
Example Sentences
But the court heard that despite a 31-week scan recording the baby as completely breech, three subsequent midwife examinations recorded it as being in a head down, cephalic position.
The circling motion was more relaxed: the rays were touching each other, and they weren't unfurling their cephalic fins—the horn-like appendages in front of their face—to eat.
This has to be done quickly, what I’m after now, he realized; he hurried down the hall and all at once his detection gear registered the presence of cephalic activity.
External cephalic version, in my experience, is more painful than actually having a baby with no anesthesia.
They can grow up to 4 feet and are named for the distinctive cephalic lobes that resemble horns.
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When To Use
The combining form -cephalic is used like a suffix meaning “having a head or heads.” It is often used in medical and scientific terms.The form -cephalic comes from the Greek ḗ, meaning “head.”The combining form -cephalic is a variant of -cephalous, as in dicephalous.Want to know more? Read our Words That Use -cephalous article.Corresponding forms of -cephalic combined to the beginning of words are cephalo- and cephal-, which you can learn more about in our Words That Use articles for each form.Also deriving from ḗ are the combining forms encephalo- and encephal-, meaning “brain.” Discover how these forms are used in our Words That Use encephalo- and encephal- articles.
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