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What does caudad mean?

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Adverb
  1. (zoology) backwards; toward the tail or posterior part
  2. (anatomy) towards the feet (only in humans)
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The abnormal bone curved caudad towards the right side of the distal sacral vertebra but was not directly attached to the sacrum.
The external sphincter was found to be funnel-shaped, being narrower caudad and widening in the cephalad direction.
The body in the type is somewhat fusiform, being narrowed both ways from the middle but more strongly so caudad.
The section is caudad to one lung and cuts the extreme tip of the other, lu.
Caudal lobe of the pronotum six sided, neither elevated nor produced caudad.
The loop of the duodenum with the head portion of the pancreas will be seen caudad of the liver and ventrad of the right kidney.

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