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Multiple Entries:
cephalic -cephalic

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cephalic /sɪˈfalɪk, kɛ-/

▶adjective technical in or relating to the head.

– origin ME: from OFr. cephalique, from L. cephalicus, from Gk kephalikos, from kephalē ‘head’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-cephalic/sɪˈfalɪk/

▶combining form (used in medical terms) -headed: leptocephalic.

'cephalic' also found in these Oxford entries:

-cephalic - cephalic index - -cephalous - cranial index - dolichocephalic

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