macrocephalic
Americanadjective
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Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
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Craniometry. being or having a skull with a large cranial capacity.
Other Word Forms
- macrocephaly noun
Etymology
Origin of macrocephalic
1850–55; < Greek makroképhal ( os ) large-headed ( macro-, -cephalous ) + -ic
Example Sentences
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Painter Vara's Madonna, which swooned biliously with unintentional surrealism over a macrocephalic child, was painted after a $175 correspondence course in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his macrocephalic head and mesmeric blue eyes, he comes across as a winsome extraterrestrial.
From Time Magazine Archive
This ependyma is the histologic factor of the enormous weight of macrocephalic brains.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
In a macrocephalic case coming under the observation of Kiernan, of Chicago, in which the brain weighed 68 ounces, the ependyma was five times the normal thickness.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
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