macrocephalic
/mak-roh-suh-fal-ik/US // ˌmæk roʊ səˈfæl ɪk //
大头畸形,大头症,大头型,大脑型
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- : Craniometry. being or having a skull with a large cranial capacity.
Examples
These women had frequent abortions, often produced deaf-mutes, and very frequently macrocephalic children.
And in place of macrocephalic, we have for very large normal crania the new term megalocephalic.
To-day, however, the terms macrocephalic and microcephalic have come to be reserved for pathological cases.
He would have had to be the most monstrous macrocephalic ever seen upon earth.
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