BRACHYCEPHALY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brachycephaly mean? 

• BRACHYCEPHALY (noun)
  The noun BRACHYCEPHALY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being brachycephalic

  Familiarity information: BRACHYCEPHALY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACHYCEPHALY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being brachycephalic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brachycephalism; brachycephaly

Hypernyms ("brachycephaly" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Derivation:

brachycephalic (having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80)

 Context examples 

Patients have a distinctive facial appearance which includes low-set ears, brachycephaly, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, and mandibular prognathism.

(Craniofacial Dysostosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs include brachycephaly, arachnodactyly, receding mandible and joint laxity at the hands and feet.

(Achard Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)