medical Definition of cephalocaudal
: proceeding or occurring in the long axis of the body especially in the direction from head to tail
- cephalocaudal development
- The fat loss occurs during childhood or adolescence, affecting the face, neck, arms, thorax, and upper abdomen in a cephalocaudal fashion.
- —Abhimanyu Garg, The New England Journal of Medicine, 18 Mar. 2004
