adverb
- in a manner relating to or directed toward the head or anterior end of the body
Usage: medical/anatomical term
Examples
- The nerve impulses travel cephalically along the spinal cord toward the brain.
- In anatomical position, the superior structures are oriented cephalically.
- The surgeon moved cephalically through the tissue layers during the procedure.
- Blood flows cephalically through the jugular vein toward the heart.
- The tumor extended cephalically into the upper regions of the organ.