Definition of Microcephalous

1. Adjective. Having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain. "A nanocephalic dwarf"


Medical Definition of Microcephalous

1. Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; opposed to megacephalic. Origin: Micro- + cephalic, cephalous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcephalous

microcelebrity
microcell
microcells
microcellular
microcentrifugation
microcentrifuge
microcentrifuges
microcentrum
microcephalic
microcephalics
microcephalies
microcephalin
microcephalins
microcephalous (current term)
microcephalus
microchannel
microchannels
microchapter
microchapters
microcharcoal
microcharge
microcharges
microcheilia
microcheiria
microchemical
microchemist
microchemistry

Literary usage of Microcephalous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"Description of a microcephalous new-born pig in which the face and the fore-parts of the brain were ..."

2. A Textbook of Nervous Diseases for Students and Practicing Physicians: In by Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen (1921)
"microcephalous Idiot. (Modeled after Life.) cases of family true microcephaly, which is preserved in the Pathological Institute at Basle. ..."

3. Dynamic Sociology: Or Applied Social Science, as Based Upon Statical by Lester Frank Ward (1911)
"microcephalous skulls aro of quite frequent occurrence among the fossil remains of prehistoric man found in different parts of the world. ..."

4. Dynamic Sociology: Or Applied Social Science by Lester Frank Ward (1897)
"microcephalous skulls are of quite frequent occurrence among the fossil remains of prehistoric man found in different parts of the world. ..."

5. Dynamic Sociology, Or Applied Social Science, as Based Upon Statical by Lester Frank Ward (1894)
"microcephalous skulls are of quite frequent occurrence among the fossil remains of prehistoric man found in different parts of the world. ..."

6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1899)
"The mother gave birth to (1) a normal male, (2) a microcephalous boy, (3) triplets, viz. a normal boy and microcephalous boy and girl, ..."

7. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene by John William Ballantyne (1904)
"... there was first a normal boy, then a microcephalous boy, then triplets (a normal boy, ... then a microcephalous girl, and finally two normal children. ..."

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