Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
macrocephaly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical
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Examples
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Starr 15.160 describes what he supposes to be a case of this disease, and proposes the title megalocephaly as preferable to Virchow's term, because the soft parts are also included in the hypertrophic process.
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Starr describes what he supposes to be a case of this disease, and proposes the title megalocephaly as preferable to Virchow's term, because the soft parts are also included in the hypertrophic process.
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One of the worst cases of megalocephaly I've ever seen.
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