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

  • 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.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • 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.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • One of the worst cases of megalocephaly I've ever seen.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

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