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caudocephalic

caudocephalic adjective: going from the tail to the head.

Adjective

caudocephalic (not comparable)

  1. Going from the tail to the head.
    • Cloacal gaping as a female response to males is also known in several snake species, where males perform caudocephalic waving (i.e. muscular contractions from cloaca to head) towards females [42 ,43 ], and the female responds by lifting her tail and gaping her cloaca [44 ,45 ].2016 January 16, “Male Courtship Pheromones Induce Cloacal Gaping in Female Newts (Salamandridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of caudocephalic

From caudo- + cephalic.

Questions about caudocephalic

What does caudocephalic mean?
Caudocephalic means going from the tail to the head.
What part of speech is caudocephalic?
Caudocephalic is an adjective.

Words near caudocephalic in the dictionary

  1. caudles
  2. caudling
  3. caudo-
  4. caudocentral
  5. caudocephalad
  6. caudocephalic
  7. caudocranial
  8. caudocranially
  9. caudodistal
  10. caudodistally
  11. caudodorsal

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