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Definition of Brachycephaly
1. Noun. The quality of being brachycephalic.
Definition of Brachycephaly
1. n. The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
Definition of Brachycephaly
1. Noun. (pathology) A congenital condition wherein the skull is flattened front-to-back, so that the head is short and broad. ¹
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Definition of Brachycephaly
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Medical Definition of Brachycephaly
1. A disproportionate shortness of the head. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachycephaly
Literary usage of Brachycephaly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head by Arthur Schueller (1918)
"... the coronal suture; plagiocephaly (slanting head) occurring from unilateral
union of the frontal and parietal bones; simple brachycephaly occurring from ..."
2. Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori (1913)
"... and brachycephaly according to the laws of variability, which is analogous to
what takes place in the case of oscillations in the opposite direction ..."
3. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"hybrids are similar in stature. cross, in is well as in the between brachy- types
of equal height offspring, is good evi- brachycephaly been observed so of ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"Leaving these out of consideration, strongly marked brachycephaly seems to be
... brachycephaly of a marked kind predominates in the Aleutian Islands (Von ..."
5. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"But the high percentage of brachycephaly in the largest sub-group, that of crania
with slight deformation (78,78 per cent of males and 90 per cent of ..."
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