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Medical Definition of Rhinocephaly
1. Rhinencephaly;a form of cyclopia in which the nose is represented by a fleshy proboscis-like protuberance arising above the slitlike orbits, and the rhinencephalic lobes of the telencephalon are poorly developed with some tendency to become fused together. Origin: rhino-+ G. Kephale, head (05 Mar 2000)