What's the difference between backwards and caudad?
Backwards
Definition:
(adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
(adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
(adv.) On the back, or with the back downward.
(adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
(adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.
(adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
(adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
Example Sentences:
(1) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
(2) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
(3) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
(4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(5) Treadmill acceleration impulses were backwards or forwards directed, or their direction was inverted after 30 ms. Backwards directed impulses were followed by gastrocnemius and forwards directed ones by tibialis anterior EMG responses (latency 65-75 ms) whose duration depended on impulse duration.
(6) For all my enthusiasm, my family must have felt we were taking a step backwards in lifestyle.
(7) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
(9) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
(10) Those with unstable Dunlop test responses were much more likely to be backward or low normal readers than children with stable responses.
(11) The effects of interval duration as well as of repeated presentation of paired stimuli on backward connections show that these factors are of considerable importance for their formation.
(12) They need not tilt the head backwards during inhalation or hold their breath afterwards.
(13) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(14) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
(15) But we won't be taking a backwards step, not this week, not this year, or next year or ever."
(16) Twenty-four male graduate volunteers were administered a battery of psychological tests--critical flicker fusion (CFF; alternate and simultaneous), reaction time (simple and choice), memory (forward and backward), and associative recall--to ascertain their performance capability during the different times of day.
(17) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
(18) The target patterns varied in the number of line segments that they contained and were presented in the presence or absence of a backward-masking stimulus.
(19) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
Caudad
Definition:
(adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(2) The number of dendrites per cell increased caudad along the gut.
(3) Direct injection of gastric varices is difficult because of increased postsclerotherapy bleeding, but sclerosis of esophageal varices often leads to their obliteration by the caudad flow of sclerosant.
(4) both rib angles (RA) and changes in RA with lung volume were greatest with the fourth rib and decreased progressively going down (caudad) the chest.
(5) In contrast to many other classification systems the professor in Anatomy at the University of Amsterdam Louis Bolk divided conjoined twins in only three main groups: 1 greater than diplopagi simplex caudad; 2 greater than diplopagi simplex craniad; 3 greater than diplopagi simplex mesad.
(6) The operation was a modification of Green's procedure; all muscular attachments to the scapula are freed, the omovertebral band is cut, and the scapula is sutured into a pocket in the latissimus dorsi after the scapula has been rotated and moved caudad to a more normal position.
(7) In addition, LHRH fibers which run caudad through the dorsal infundibular region and then the mesencephalic reticular formation were widely distributed in both the gray and the white matter of the medulla oblongata.
(8) So, while the process of recanalization of the lumen is cranio-caudad, the formation of previllous ridges and crypts proceeds caudo-cranially.
(9) The inferior coeliac nerves inhibited primarily the orad segments of colon and the lumbar colonic nerves inhibited primarily the caudad segments of colon.
(10) The strong caudad GMCs of the cecum may periodically empty cecal contents into the colon.
(11) In group I there was no statistically significant correlation between the spread of contrast medium and the extension of the epidural block either in the cephalad or in the caudad direction.
(12) Regional variations in the discharge patterns of the internal and external intercostal muscles of the middle and caudad thorax were studied in decerebrate, spontaneously breathing cats during coughing and vomiting.
(13) The left bundle branch proceeded to caudad on the anterior wall of the main ventricular chamber.
(14) It is considered that the contractions induced by motilin are identical with the naturally occurring interdigestive contractions in the LES and these contractions are the most orad component of the interdigestive cyclic recurring caudad-moving bands of strong contractions in the dogs.
(15) In 2 of them, a 'swinging heart' appearance was recorded when the ultrasoound beam was directed caudally, but not when its direction was cephalad or less caudad.
(16) An anteroposterior projection with a 20 degrees cephalo-caudad angulation centered at the glabella adequately demonstrates the posterior and lateral orbital floor and the posterolateral margin of the orbital floor in all patients.
(17) The superior mesenteric-portal vein, which was L-shaped and convexly caudad, strongly suggested this anomalous condition.
(18) Passage of this instrument when performing axillofemoral bypass is probably safer when done in a cephalad-to-caudad direction.
(19) There are three factors which determine the volume of the spinal canal, its lateral recesses and the intervertebral canals; the developmental size; the level cephalad and caudad of the vertebral column; the multiple acquired conditions which may cause encroachment.
(20) A unilateral abnormality is manifested by exaggeration or reversal of the normal disparity in height between the superior margins of the liver and spleen by cephalad or caudad displacement of one of these organs.