Usually means: Toward the front; opposite caudal.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. rostral: Merriam-Webster
  2. rostral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rostral: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rostral: Wordnik
  5. rostral: Wiktionary
  6. rostral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. rostral: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. rostral: Dictionary.com
  9. Rostral (disambiguation), Rostral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rostral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rostral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Rostral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rostral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. rostral: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rostral: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rostral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. rostral: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. rostral: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

(Note: See rostrally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rostral)

adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to the rostrum.
adjective:  Serving as a rostrum.
noun:  A scale in reptiles on the median plate of the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening.

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