face rostral

To describe how close to the head of an animal something is, three distinct terms are used: Rostral (from Latin rostrum, meaning 'beak, nose'), meaning situated toward the oral or nasal region, or in the case of the brain, toward the tip of the frontal lobe.

To describe how close to the head of an animal something is, three distinct terms are used: Rostral (from Latin rostrum, meaning 'beak, nose'), meaning situated toward the oral or nasal region, or in the case of the brain, toward the tip of the frontal lobe.