adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
cephalic
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adj
Meaning 2
Of or relating to the head.
Of or relating to the brain.
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adj
Meaning 3
Of or relating to the head.
Of or relating to the cephalon (the head of a trilobite).
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adj
Meaning 4
Toward the head; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to superior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: anatomical terms of location and direction
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Synonyms: cephalad
Antonyms: caudal
adj
Meaning 5
Headlike; cephaloid.
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noun
Meaning 6
A remedy that benefits the head or brain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
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adjective
Meaning 7
of or relating to the head
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: caudal
History
Etymology
From Middle French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus (“head”), from Ancient Greek κεφαλικός (kephalikós, “capital”), from κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رَأْسِيّ (raʔsiyy) — of or referring to the head
- Belarusian: галаўны́ (halawný) — of or referring to the head
- Catalan: cefàlic — of or referring to the head
- Esperanto: testa — of or referring to the head
- Finnish: kefaalinen — of or referring to the head
- French: céphalique — of or referring to the head
- German: Kopf- — of or referring to the head
- Greek: κεφαλικός (kefalikós) — of or referring to the head
- Italian: cefalico — of or referring to the head
- Central Kurdish: سەری (serî) — of or referring to the head
- Polish: głowowy — of or referring to the head
- Portuguese: cefálico — of or referring to the head
- Russian: головно́й (golovnój) — of or referring to the head
- Spanish: cefálico — of or referring to the head
- Tagalog: uluhin — of or referring to the head
- Tagalog: pang-ulo — of or referring to the head
- Turkish: sefalik — of or referring to the head
- Turkish: başçıl — of or referring to the head
- Ukrainian: головни́й (holovnýj) — of or referring to the head