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Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.

opæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

Anterior; cephalic. Barclay.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

es 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.

The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.

A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages.

Mesaticephalic.

Mesocephalic.

The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

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.

gated by the Incas. Most of these Indians are short, but heavy and strong. They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity. Nevertheless, they represent one of the highest of native American civilizations, characterized by agricultural, military, and administrative skill rather than by science or literat…

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. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

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.

Resembling a wheel. Trochal disk (Zoöl.), the cephalic disk of a rotifer. It is usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.

rochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. -- Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia).