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Definition of caudal in English: caudaladjective ˈkɔːd(ə)lˈkɔdl 1Of or like a tail. Example sentencesExamples - Scales from mid-body to the tail and the caudal and dorsal fins have black spots.
- Their caudal vertebrae differ however, in that those of phlegethontiids exhibit a posterior displacement of the foramina.
- The associated hadrosaur material consists of four caudal vertebrae and a fragmentary dentary.
- As a result, many boxfishes cannot bend their bodies anterior to their caudal peduncles, and almost all of their swimming movements derive from complex combinations of motions of their five fins.
- The decapod remains were located between 0.5 and 3.0 m from a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur caudal vertebra.
- 1.1 At or near the tail or the posterior part of the body.
Example sentencesExamples - The body of the seventh sometimes bears bilaterally, near its caudal border, a costal pit for the head of the first rib.
- Each trochlear nerve makes its exit through the caudal tectum (the dorsal portion of the midbrain), immediately lateral to the frenulum of the superior medullary velum.
- A perpendicular is erected from the end plate of the most caudal vertebrae, whose inferior end plate tilts maximally to the concavity of the curve (inferior end vertebrae).
- The needle is inserted into the interscalene groove in a slightly medial, caudal, and posterior direction to avoid the vertebral column and vascular structures.
- In the posterior precaudal and anterior caudal vertebrae rib shafts become hairlike structures.
Synonyms rear, hind, back, hinder, rearward
Derivatives adverb The pointed end of the egg is pointed caudally. Example sentencesExamples - As the stone progresses down the ureter, the pain tends to migrate caudally and medially.
- Tadpoles, like most fishes, swim by lateral undulations of the body axis during which waves of bending pass caudally as the animals move forward.
- The upper end of the sulcus usually cuts the dorsal border of the brain and turns caudally; rarely, it ends as much as 1 cm from the dorsal border.
- The surgeon performs the final cryoablation episode between the right lateral aspect of the tricuspid valve caudally to the coronary sinus and up to the IVC, which is the focus that initiates atrial flutter.
Origin Mid 17th century: from modern Latin caudalis, from Latin cauda 'tail'. Definition of caudal in US English: caudaladjectiveˈkôdlˈkɔdl 1Of or like a tail. Example sentencesExamples - As a result, many boxfishes cannot bend their bodies anterior to their caudal peduncles, and almost all of their swimming movements derive from complex combinations of motions of their five fins.
- Their caudal vertebrae differ however, in that those of phlegethontiids exhibit a posterior displacement of the foramina.
- The decapod remains were located between 0.5 and 3.0 m from a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur caudal vertebra.
- The associated hadrosaur material consists of four caudal vertebrae and a fragmentary dentary.
- Scales from mid-body to the tail and the caudal and dorsal fins have black spots.
- 1.1 At or near the tail or the posterior part of the body.
Example sentencesExamples - The body of the seventh sometimes bears bilaterally, near its caudal border, a costal pit for the head of the first rib.
- The needle is inserted into the interscalene groove in a slightly medial, caudal, and posterior direction to avoid the vertebral column and vascular structures.
- Each trochlear nerve makes its exit through the caudal tectum (the dorsal portion of the midbrain), immediately lateral to the frenulum of the superior medullary velum.
- In the posterior precaudal and anterior caudal vertebrae rib shafts become hairlike structures.
- A perpendicular is erected from the end plate of the most caudal vertebrae, whose inferior end plate tilts maximally to the concavity of the curve (inferior end vertebrae).
Synonyms rear, hind, back, hinder, rearward
Origin Mid 17th century: from modern Latin caudalis, from Latin cauda ‘tail’. |