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HPE

HPE is the initialism of holoprosencephaly.

Meaning of holoprosencephaly

Noun

holoprosencephaly (countable and uncountable, plural holoprosencephalies)

  1. A congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain during fetal development, resulting in skull and facial deformities ranging from minor cleft lip problems to cyclopia, in which a single eye develops where the nose would normally be.
    Synonyms:
    HPE

Questions about HPE

What is HPE the initialism of?
HPE is the initialism of holoprosencephaly.

Words near HPE in the dictionary

  1. hpaB
  2. Hpakant
  3. HPAs
  4. HPC
  5. HPD
  6. HPE
  7. HPF
  8. HPFS
  9. HPGP
  10. hph
  11. HPHs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HPE (page history and authors); holoprosencephaly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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