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Definition of Cauda
1. Noun. Any taillike structure.
Derivative terms: Caudal, Caudal
Medical Definition of Cauda
1. Synonym: tail. Origin: L. A tail (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cauda
Literary usage of Cauda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"LESIONS OP THE cauda EQUINA AND CONUS MEDULLARIS The spinal cord extends only to the
... bundle of nerves known as the cauda equina and the terminal portion ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1866)
"The term cauda-GALLI refers to the feathery forms of an abundant fossil supposed
to be the impressions of a sea-weed (fig. 441). ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"A PECULIAR AND UNDESCRIBED DISEASE OF THE ROOTS OF THE cauda EQUINA By Charles A.
Elsberg, MD, and Foster Kennedy, MD The speakers said that during the last ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"THE symptoms of tumor of the cauda equina resemble closely those produced by
certain other conditions. The diagnosis must be made between hysteria, ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Large tumors of the cauda equina, removed by laminectomy. a few months later by
... When the dura is opened, the roots of the cauda equina are found much ..."
6. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"DISEASES OF THE cauda EQUINA may also give rise to flaccid paralysis of the ...
A focus that has involved all of the nerves of the cauda equina—which pass ..."
7. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim (1900)
"The diseases of the cauda equina demand separate treatment only by reason of the
... Disease processes may extend to the cauda from the lumbar vertebra, ..."
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