Definition of Procephalic

1. a. Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.

Definition of Procephalic

1. Adjective. (zoology) Relating to, or forming, the front of the head. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Procephalic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Procephalic

proceeded
proceeder
proceeders
proceedest
proceedeth
proceeding
proceedings
proceeds
proceleusmatic
proceleusmatics
procellarian
procellarians
procellariiform seabird
procellous
procentriole
procephalic (current term)
proceptive
proceptivity
procercoid
procercoids
procerebra
procerebrum
procerite
procerites
procerity
procerus
process
process-server
process cheese

Literary usage of Procephalic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... Report of the United States Entomological Commission by United States Entomological commission (1883)
"There, however, remains a portion of the head in front of the procephalic or antenna! lobes, which afterwards becomes the clypeus and ..."

2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"procephalic lobe. I cannot accept the validity of this argument ; though I am glad to find myself in, at any rate, partial harmony with the distinguished ..."

3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"203 B, which meet however in front in the procephalic lobes, and behind in the caudal lobes. Very shortly afterwards these bands become broken up into a ..."

4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"The procephalic lobes resemble those of the Arthropoda generally, ... The mouth appears as a slit-like opening between and below the procephalic lobes. ..."

5. Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge by Francis Maitland Balfour, Adam Sedgwick (1880)
"procephalic lobe. I cannot accept the validity of this argument ; though I am glad to find myself in, at any rate, partial harmony with the distinguished ..."

6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The development of a somite for the procephalic lobes is similar to what has ... 339), but must not be necessarily supposed to indicate that the procephalic ..."

7. The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1880)
"I am disposed to think, though I have not been able to obtain complete evidence of the- fact, that the procephalic processes are the representatives of the ..."

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