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- Cephalic - a. - Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.
- Cephalic - n. - A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.
- Preaxial - a. - Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.
- Asarabacca - n. - An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.
- Brain - n. - The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
- Tentacle - n. - A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
- Tethys - n. - A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
- Gymnocopa - n. pl. - A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages.
- Dibranchiata - n. pl. - An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.