Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
anencephalia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lethal birth defect in which most of thebrain and parts of theskull are missing;absence of theencephalon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was born with a birth defect called anencephaly.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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He was born with a birth defect called anencephaly.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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He was born with a birth defect called anencephaly.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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He was born with a birth defect called anencephaly.
Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011
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Something known as anencephaly is something where the brain just simply never develops.
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When you have organ failure or lack of organ development that is so catastrophic that the child could not be born and live a normal life or live at all, something known as anencephaly, is something where the brain just simply never develops.
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Many are paralyzed or permanently impaired by spina bifida; some, with a condition called anencephaly literally, “no brain”, survive in a vegetative state.
NYT: Folic Acid in Flour GreenFertility 2007
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It's called anencephaly; it may be the result of B-vitamin deficiency.
A reincarnation of Vishnu... Ann Althouse 2007
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Many are paralyzed or permanently impaired by spina bifida; some, with a condition called anencephaly literally, “no brain”, survive in a vegetative state.
Archive 2007-12-01 GreenFertility 2007
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In particular, women with a diet closely matched to the USDA Food Guide Pyramid were half as likely to have a baby missing part of its brain and skull -- a birth defect called anencephaly -- than women whose diet was farthest from those guidelines.
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