cephalocaudal

Less-used synonyms would be rostrocaudal or cephalocaudal axes (see Table 1).

If they appear in the cephalic region and grow with cephalocaudal direction, they are called somitomeres.

Arm and hands are more developed than feet and legs (cephalocaudal development); hands appear large in proportion to other body parts.

The cephalocaudal trend is also the trend of infants learning to use their upper limbs before their lower limbs.

The cephalocaudal trend, or cephalocaudal gradient of growth, refers to the pattern of changing spatial proportions over time during growth.

The distribution of lung tissue along the cephalocaudal axis was determined in patients by taking into consideration all 10 mm thick CT sections between the apex and the lung base.