macrocephalic

Adjective

macrocephalic (not comparable)

1. Having an abnormally large or elongated head.
   • In 1849, M. Rathke stated that artificially-formed skulls had been found near Kertch, in the Crimea, and called attention to certain passages in the works of Hippocrates and Strabo, overlooked by medical writers, in which these authors speak of the practice of modifying the shape of the head by...1873, John Wells Foster, chapter 9, in Pre-Historic Races of the United States, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., page 327
   • This intimation, breaking through his resistances, evoked first the dread of an abnormal child, prematurely wise, macrocephalic, with dreadful tentacular hands.... So his essential humanity presented the thing.1937, H. G. Wells, Star Begotten, Chapter 6, § 2
2. Characterized by a disproportionate concentration of population and activities in a single centre, to the detriment of other areas.
   • In 1947, the geographer Jean-François Gravier published a book that became an instant sensation: Paris et le désert français. Gravier argued that France was becoming a seriously deformed nation, a macrocephalic invalid: Paris, the megalopolis, was sucking all the lifeblood from the provinces...2003, Michael Bess, The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000, University of Chicago Press, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 49
   • Several developing countries are characterized by rapid urbanization, macrocephalic urban systems, high urban densities and various socio economic and environmental problems.2007, R. Kalra, “High Technology and Urban Development in Bangalore, India”, in Jay D. Gatrell, Neil Reid, editors, Enterprising Worlds: A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics...