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Caudal vs Craniocaudal - What's the difference?

caudal | craniocaudal |

As adjectives the difference between caudal and craniocaudal

is that caudal is pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body while craniocaudal is from the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.

As a noun caudal

is a caudal vertebra.

caudal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
  • * Darwin
    • the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 3:
    • Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, caudally , caudal fin , caudal keel , caudal peduncle , precaudal , subcaudal , supracaudal}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A caudal vertebra.

    • craniocaudal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.

    • Usage notes

    * Most often used to describe the direction of an X-ray beam.

    Derived terms

    * craniocaudally