Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an unusually small cranium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to
megacephalic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having an
abnormally small head - noun A microcephalic person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain
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Examples
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We have come to the conclusion that the conservatives have transformed themselves into microcephalic imbeciles.
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As I focused on their faces and bodies, I could see that many of them were growth stunted and some were microcephalic (small heads due to brain damage, malnutrition, infection); their faces were covered with molluscum contagiosum (virally mediated warts) and impetigo.
Dr. Jane Aronson: What Does a Bar Mitzvah Have to do With the Fate of Orphans Around the World? Dr. Jane Aronson 2011
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Is that too much for your microcephalic existance?
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As long as they have their personal ideology cloudin 'their closed conscience continuously, we will dub them as microcephalic imbeciles.
House Democrat: Health care bill in doubt without public plan 2009
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As I focused on their faces and bodies, I could see that many of them were growth stunted and some were microcephalic (small heads due to brain damage, malnutrition, infection); their faces were covered with molluscum contagiosum (virally mediated warts) and impetigo.
Dr. Jane Aronson: What Does a Bar Mitzvah Have to do With the Fate of Orphans Around the World? Dr. Jane Aronson 2011
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Drool splattered keyboards, sweat forming on their foreheads as they rack their microcephalic craniums for anything remotely witty … a BIG … FAT … ZERO!
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010
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He thought it was highly improbable that Homo floresiensis anything but a separate hominid species, casting strong doubt on the microcephalic mutant hypothesis.
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I never liked the microcephalic mutant theory at all.
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Disclaimer: Groves is not a disinterested participant in this debate, having coauthored a paper which argues against the microcephalic interpretation.
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A new report in Science has come out firmly in favour of the Homo floresiensis not being a “pathological microcephalic”.
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