Toward the back and toward the tail in anatomical direction.
From Latin dorsum (back) + caudad (toward the tail, from cauda = tail). The -ad suffix indicates direction. Used in anatomical descriptions of movement or orientation.
When a surgeon moves 'dorsocaudad' they're going backward and downward toward the tail—it's like using GPS coordinates but for bodies, telling exactly which direction you're heading!
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