macrocephalic

[ mak-roh-suh-fal-ik ]

adjective

1. Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
2. Craniometry. being or having a skull with a large cranial capacity.

Other Words From

• macro·cepha·ly noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of macrocephalic¹

1850–55; < Greek makroképhal ( os ) large-headed ( macro-, -cephalous ) + -ic

Example Sentences

These women had frequent abortions, often produced deaf-mutes, and very frequently macrocephalic children.

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And in place of macrocephalic, we have for very large normal crania the new term megalocephalic.

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To-day, however, the terms macrocephalic and microcephalic have come to be reserved for pathological cases.

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He would have had to be the most monstrous macrocephalic ever seen upon earth.

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