a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec., in various senses.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 54/1. Phlebotomize also the Cephalicalle vayne.
1658. A. Fox, Würtz’ Surg., III. vi. 234. The medicine must be Cephalical.
Hence Cephalically adv., in relation to the head.
1852. Dana, Crust., II. 1412. Number of annuli cephalically absorbed. Ibid. (1874), Text-Bk. Geol., 342. Improvement in the … organs of the head, that is, cephalically.
