cephalocaudal
adjective
ceph·a·lo·cau·dal
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Medical Definition of cephalocaudal
: proceeding or occurring in the long axis of the body especially in the direction from head to tail
cephalocaudal development The fat loss occurs during childhood or adolescence, affecting the face, neck, arms, thorax, and upper abdomen in a cephalocaudal fashion.— Abhimanyu Garg, The New England Journal of Medicine, 18 Mar. 2004
Other Words from cephalocaudal
cephalocaudally
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