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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The condition of suffering from a pointed skull.
2. 2
   a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

oxycephalyoxycephaly

Etymology

From acro- + -cephaly, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “highest, on the extremity”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

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