Cephalic
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A remedy that benefits the head or brain. obsolete
"[…] recover their Sight […] by the use of Bleeding, Purging, Blistering and Cephalics."
- 1 Of or relating to the head.
"The objective of this study was to identify the factors predictive of the success of external cephalic version (ECV). […] The study shows that transverse foetal presentation, a senior physician operator, multiparity, as well as a non-anterior placental location are factors predictive of the success of ECV."
- 2 Of or relating to the head.; Of or relating to the brain.
"I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it."
- 3 Of or relating to the head.; Of or relating to the cephalon (the head of a trilobite).
- 4 Toward the head; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to superior.
- 5 Headlike; cephaloid.
- 1 of or relating to the head wordnet
Example
More examples"The objective of this study was to identify the factors predictive of the success of external cephalic version (ECV). […] The study shows that transverse foetal presentation, a senior physician operator, multiparity, as well as a non-anterior placental location are factors predictive of the success of ECV."
Etymology
From Middle French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus (“head”), from Ancient Greek κεφαλικός (kephalikós, “capital”), from κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).