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brachycephalia

brachycephalia is the alternative form of brachycephaly.

Meaning of brachycephaly

Noun

brachycephaly (countable and uncountable, plural brachycephalies)

  1. A congenital condition wherein the skull is flattened front-to-back, so that the head is short and broad.

Forms of brachycephalia

pluralbrachycephalias

Questions about brachycephalia

What is brachycephalia the alternative form of?
Brachycephalia is the alternative form of brachycephaly.

Words near brachycephalia in the dictionary

  1. brachycardias
  2. brachycatalectic
  3. brachycatalectics
  4. brachycentrid
  5. brachycephali
  6. brachycephalia
  7. brachycephalias
  8. brachycephalic
  9. brachycephalics
  10. brachycephalid
  11. brachycephalids

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