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cephalic, a. (n.)|sɪˈfælɪk|
[a. F. céphalique, ad. L. cephalicus, a. Gr. κεϕαλικός belonging to the head, f. κεϕαλή head.]
1. Of or pertaining to the head, situated in the head; of the nature of a head.
a. Phys. and Biol.
cephalic artery: the common carotid artery on either side. cephalic ganglia: the anterior ganglia of the nervous chord in Arthropoda and Mollusca, answering to the brain of higher animals. cephalic index: a number indicating the ratio of the transverse to the longitudinal diameter of the skull. cephalic-median (or median cephalic) vein: ‘the outer..division of the median vein which joins with the radial vein to form the cephalic vein’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). cephalic vein: the principal vein of the arm, so called because the opening of this vein was anciently supposed to relieve disorders of the head.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 1/2 The Cephalick vayne on the hande, behinde the thumbe. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Voc., Cephalic arterie consists of two branches which, springing out of the great artery, ascend up into the head. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius v. 401 Order reigns in each cephalick cell. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 763/1 Each pair is a counterpart of..every other pair, without even excepting the cephalic ganglion. 1852Dana Crust. i. 34 There is sometimes a cephalic segment. 1866Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 83 The cephalic index. 1871Darwin Desc. Man I. x. 370 A single cephalic horn. 1872W. R. Greg Enigmas ii. 85 note, Barren marriages..so frequent among persons of preponderatingly cephalic temperaments.
b. in general sense. (Chiefly humorous.)
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. i. (1653) 2 The first Cephalique Fashion-mongers..so called, because there were found many Macrocephali, that is, such Long Heads, as no other Nation had the like. 1837Syd. Smith Let. Singleton, The objection of certain cephalic animalcula to the use of small-tooth combs. 1844G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) II. 382 The Cephalic Teraphim of the Rabbins. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. (1876) 370 Spinning away on his cephalic pivot.
2. Curing or relieving disorders of the head.
1656Ridgley Pract. Physic 169 With Cephalick powders. 1707Farquhar Beaux' Strat. iii. i, Shall I send to your Mother, Child, for a little of her Cephalick Plaister to put to the Soals of your Feet? 1776Withering Bot. Arrangem. (1796) I. 270 The plants..are odoriferous, cephalic, and resolvent. 1813M. Edgeworth Patron. I. xx. 351 He ordered some cephalic snuff to be administered.
B. n.
1. A cephalic remedy.
1656Ridgley Pract. Physic 56 Conserve of Roses..mingled with hot Cephalicks. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 117 It is a gentle cephalic and diaphoretic.
2. Short for cephalic snuff.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 182 Take a pinch of cephalic from the little agate box. 1834Beckford Italy II. 165 A pinch of her best cephalic. |