Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In teratology, the absence of the head.
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- noun medicine A
birth defect in which thehead is absent
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- noun absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters)
Etymologies
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a- + -cephalia
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Examples
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I have said elsewhere that the algorithm constitutes a kind of mindless identity, whose very “acephalia” dramatizes the fundamental irrelevance of the writing subject in the manufacture of the written product.
Poetic Machines 01 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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