| 单词 | cephalisations |
| 释义 | cephal- or cephalo- /se-fəl- or se-fə-lō/combining formDenoting head ORIGIN: Gr kephalē head cephˈalad adjective (zoology and anatomy) Situated near, facing towards, or passing to the head cephalagˈra noun (Gr agrā a catching) gout in the head cephalalˈgia noun (Gr algos pain; medicine) Headache cephalalˈgic adjective Cephalasˈpis noun (Gr aspis shield) an Upper Silurian and Old Red Sandstone genus of extinct fishes or fish-like animals with a head-shield cephˈalate adjective Having a head cephalˈic adjective Of or belonging to the head (cephalic index the ratio of the breadth to the length of the skull expressed as a percentage; cephalic presentation the usual position of a child in the womb just before birth, head downwards) nounA remedy for headache -cephalic and -cephalous adj combining form cephˈalin noun (biochemistry) A compound of phosphorus found in the brain and nervous tissue (also kephalin) cephalīˈtis noun Inflammation of the brain cephalizāˈtion or cephalisāˈtion noun In animal evolution, the specialization of the anterior end or head as the site of the mouthparts, sensory organs and principal ganglia of the central nervous system cephalocele /sefˈəl-ə-sēl/ noun (medicine) The protrusion of the membranes of the brain through a hole in the skull cephalochordate /-ō-körˈdāt/ noun (Gr chordē cord) a member of the subphyllum Cephalochordata, of chordate fish-like animals (including the lancelets and amphioxus), having a persisting notochord projecting beyond the nerve cord to the end of the snout (also adjective) cephalomˈetry noun (medicine)
cephˈalopod /-pod/ noun (Gr pous, podos foot) a member of the Cephalopoda /-opˈod-ə/, the highest class of molluscs, usu large, exclusively marine animals (including cuttlefish, squid, octopus, etc), with the foot modified into arms or tentacles surrounding the mouth cephalospōˈrin noun Any of a group of wide-spectrum antibiotics derived from the fungus Cephalosporium cephalōthoˈrax noun The fused head and thorax in some arthropods cephalotomy /kef-al-otˈə-mi/ noun (Gr tomē a cut) the dissection of the head cephˈalous adjective Having a head |
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