Cranial means "towards the head" and Caudal means "towards the tail (or feet)"
The opposite of caudal (toward the tail) is cephalad (toward the head).
The directional term from groin to buttock is "inferior" or "caudal."
Caudal vertebrae are tiny bones at the end of the spine and make up the tail bone in humans. In animals, they extend far into the tail but become more and more regressive and smaller as you go along
Organs can be described anatomically based on their location in the body. Terms like "ventral" (front), "dorsal" (back), "cranial" (toward the head), "caudal" (toward the tail), "superior" (above), and "inferior" (below) are commonly used to describe the position of organs in relation to one another.
medulla obligata pons mid brain there is a forth known as the reticular formation... functions of each as well, medulla oblonga: innate relfexes, eg. vommiting, coughing, sneezing pons: reflexes mid brain: visual reticular formation: sleep and wake cycle
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The opposite of caudal (toward the tail) is cephalad (toward the head).
Caudal is the opposite of cranial in medical terms.
Most human beings are born with 1 pair of lungs, a left lung and a right lung. The left lung holds both the cranial and caudal lobes . The right lungs holds the middle, cranial and caudal lobes.
The dog's tail is caudal to the dog's neck. Caudal and cranial are descriptors for direction, similar to "Canada is north of the United States". Cranial is towards the head; caudal is towards the tail/rear.
The right lung of a fetal pig consists of the cranial, middle, and caudal lobes. The cranial lobe is the largest lobe and is further divided into cranial and caudal parts.
The directional term from groin to buttock is "inferior" or "caudal."
When discussing embryology, the term superior is replaced with cranial, and the term inferior is replaced with caudal.These terms are sometimes also used generally when discussing anatomy to replace superior and inferior.
A dog has six lung lobes. The right lung has cranial, middle, caudal and accessory lobes, and the left lung has a cranial and caudal lobe. Note. The cranial portion of the left lobe also has a cranial and caudal part, so it looks like the left side has three lobes.
A pig's lung has four lobes: cranial, middle, caudal, and accessory lobes. The right lung has all four lobes while the left lung has only the cranial, caudal, and accessory lobes.
The caudal direction refers to the tail end or posterior part of the body in anatomy. It is the opposite of the cranial direction, which refers to the head or anterior part of the body.