What it means
The root in words about the head. Cephalic means toward the head (a cephalic presentation is a baby coming head first), hydrocephalus is fluid building up inside the head, and a cephalgia is a headache. In encephal/oen-SEF-uh-lohA word part that means brain.Full entry , en- means inside, so the word part means the brain, the organ inside the head.
At a glance
| Also written | cephalo-, cephal- |
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Related terms
neur/o
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hydr/o
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encephal/o
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