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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. 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.