The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cephalon \Ceph"a*lon\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The head. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) The head of a trilobite.
Wikipedia
Cephalon, Inc. was a U.S. biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by Frank Baldino, Jr, pharmacologist, Michael Lewis, neuroscientist and James C. Kauer, organic chemist, all three former scientists with the DuPont Company. Baldino served as the company's chairman and chief executive officer until his death in December 2010. The company's name comes from the adjective "cephalic" meaning "related to the head or brain," and it was established primarily to pursue treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
In the early years, Cephalon initially avoided involving itself in activities that would require maintaining a sales staff, managing clinical trials, and shepherding new drugs through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval process. With no product to sell, Cephalon's only asset was its scientific expertise. That expertise proved sufficient to attract investors, and the company managed to fund its operations through research grants and contracts with larger pharmaceutical firms.
Sales revenues reached $2.8 billion in 2010, ranking Cephalon among the leading biopharmaceutical companies in the world. In 2006, industry publication MedAd News named the company one of the ten most respected biotechnology firms in the world. Cephalon employs more than 3,700.
Cephalon was first included in the Fortune 1000 list of U.S. companies based upon annual revenues for 2006.
On May 2, 2011, Teva announced its acquisition of Cephalon.
Usage examples of "cephalon".
But the cephalon, the governing brain-structure which guided and oriented the homeostatic system, appeared to be intact.
And still, from beneath them, the deep rumble continued, the newspaper printing its extra, informing the world of the march by Benny Cemoli's supporters on New York City -- a fantasy march, evidently, a product manufactured entirely within the cephalon of the newspaper itself.
And if our tunnel to the cephalon of the homeopape, which took us five years to complete, isn't discovered.