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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

acrocephalyoxycephalismturricephalyturricephaly

Etymology

From oxy- + -cephaly.

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