Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of the human skull in which the vault is lofty or pyramidal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Loftiness of skull.
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- noun The condition of
suffering from apointed skull .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape
Etymologies
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From acro- + -cephaly, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος (akros, "highest, on the extremity") + κεφαλή (kephalē, "head")
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