cephalic vs essential

cephalic

adj
  • Of or relating to the head. 

  • Headlike; cephaloid. 

  • Of or relating to the brain. 

  • Of or relating to the cephalon (the head of a trilobite). 

  • Toward the head; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to superior. 

essential

adj
  • Idiopathic. 

  • Necessary. 

  • Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 

  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 

  • Really existing; existent. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 

noun
  • A necessary ingredient. 

  • A fundamental ingredient. 

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