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cephalosomatic

cephalosomatic adjective: relating to the head and the rest of the body.

Adjective

cephalosomatic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the head and the rest of the body
    • In medical terms, it would be a cephalosomatic anastomosis, the first of its kind.2015 October 3, Tom Lamont, “'I'll do the first human head transplant'”, in The Guardian

Origin of cephalosomatic

From cephalo- + somatic.

Questions about cephalosomatic

What does cephalosomatic mean?
Cephalosomatic means relating to the head and the rest of the body.
What part of speech is cephalosomatic?
Cephalosomatic is an adjective.

Words near cephalosomatic in the dictionary

  1. cephaloradiographs
  2. cephaloridine
  3. cephaloridines
  4. cephaloscopic
  5. cephaloscopy
  6. cephalosomatic
  7. cephalosome
  8. cephalosomes
  9. cephalosporanate
  10. cephalosporanates
  11. cephalosporanic

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