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What does cephalic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to the head; headlike.
  2. Of, or pertaining to, the cephalon.
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While resting in burrows or slight crevices, Pherusa extends its cephalic cage, grooved paired pales, and branchiae into the current.
Commonly used sites for catheterization include the basilic, cephalic, saphenous popliteal, external jugular, and temporal veins.
Type B genes are expressed particularly in the leaflike regions on both sides in the bilobed cephalic ganglion.
Naupli have a cephalic shield or the beginnings of the dorsal carapace, and no segmentation on the trunk.
All dorsal sclerites are in close articulation and there are no gaps along cephalic sutures.
The cephalic end of the worm produces an indurated papule that vesiculates and eventually ulcerates.

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