Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In teratology, having no encephalon; without a brain. An equivalent form is anencephalic.
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- adjective biology Without a
brain .
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- adjective characterized by partial or total absence of a brain
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Examples
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A friend's daughter-in-law in her second trimester of pregnancy discovered that the fetus was anencephalous -- it had no upper skull or brain and would never achieve human consciousness.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Dishonoring Mothers With The Sixth Commandment: We Need Reproductive Rights For Mother's Day Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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Brunet 6.99 describes an anencephalous boy born at term who survived his birth.
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Buhring relates the history of a case somewhat analogous to viability of anencephalous monsters.
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Lundie relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham describes a similar case of ten and a half months 'duration.
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Nicoll and Arnold describe an anencephalous fetus with absence of spinal marrow; and Smith also records the birth of an amyelitic fetus.
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Nicoll and Arnold 6.244 describe an anencephalous fetus with absence of spinal marrow; and Smith also records the birth of an amyelitic fetus.
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Saviard * [469] delivered an anencephalous child at term which died in thirty-six hours.
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Buhring relates the history of a case somewhat analogous to viability of anencephalous monsters.
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Lundie 2.115 relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham describes a similar case of ten and a half months 'duration.
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Of anomalies of the head the first to be considered will be the anencephalous monsters who, strange to say, have been known to survive birth.
oroboros commented on the word anencephalous
Sounds like the letters N N C F L S.
May 17, 2008