Question: what are the cephalocaudal and proximodistal patterns?
Answer: Cephalocaudal trend. The cephalocaudal trend, or cephalocaudal gradient of growth, refers to the pattern of changing spatial proportions over time during growth. ... The proximodistal trend, on the other hand, is the prenatal growth from 5 months to birth when the fetus grows from the inside of the body outwards.