caudal
Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
Other meanings
Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to .
Related words
- anterocaudal
- caudalization
- distocaudal
- femorocaudal
- frontocaudal
- lumbocaudal
- midcaudal
- pericaudal
- posterocaudal
- proximocaudal
- tricaudal
- bicaudal
Word history
From Latin "caudālis" (having a tail).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “caudal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.