- The
cephalocaudal trend, or
cephalocaudal gradient of growth,
refers to the
pattern of
changing spatial proportions over time
during growth. One example...
- 1, the head, to zone 5, the
palms and
soles of the neonate's body.
Cephalocaudal progression of
jaundice to zone 4 and 5 of the Kramer's
scale shows...
- have
different axes.
Example axes are: The
anteroposterior axis The
cephalocaudal axis The
dorsoventral axis
Examples of axes in
specific animals are...
-
skills develop in
different parts of a body
along three principles:
Cephalocaudal – the
principle that
development occurs from head to tail. For example...
- into segments. If they
appear in the
cephalic region and grow with
cephalocaudal direction, they are
called somitomeres. If they
appear in the cephalic...
- with
yellowed skin and
icteral sclerae.
Neonatal jaundice spreads in a
cephalocaudal pattern,
affecting the face and neck
before spreading down to the trunk...
-
develops from a
cranial region of
endoderm created after the
initial cephalocaudal folding of the embryo.
Starting at the stomodeum, a
rapid expansion...
- says a child's
pattern of
growth is in a head-to-toe direction, or
cephalocaudal, and in an
inward to
outward pattern (center of the body to the peripheral)...
- for
their first. Arm and
hands are more
developed than feet and legs (
cephalocaudal development);
hands appear large in
proportion to
other body parts....
- arms, hands, buttocks, fingers, legs, and feet.
There is a
genetic cephalocaudal (head-to-foot)
trend in both
prenatal and
postnatal development. As...
