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cephalography

cephalography noun: radiography of the head.

Noun

cephalography (uncountable)

  1. radiography of the head
    • The methods most often used in the past have included photography and two-dimensional lateral cephalography.2015 July 9, Andreas F. Hellak et al., “Influence of maxillary advancement surgery on skeletal and soft-tissue changes in the nose — a retrospective cone-beam computed tomography study”, in Head &...

Origin of cephalography

From cephalo- + -graphy.

Questions about cephalography

What does cephalography mean?
Cephalography means radiography of the head.
What part of speech is cephalography?
Cephalography is a noun.

Words near cephalography in the dictionary

  1. cephalogram
  2. cephalograms
  3. cephalograph
  4. cephalographic
  5. cephalographs
  6. cephalography
  7. cephalogyric
  8. cephalohaematoma
  9. cephalohaematomas
  10. cephalohaematomata
  11. cephalohematoma

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