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oxycephaly

oxycephaly noun: a kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.

Noun

oxycephaly (countable and uncountable, plural oxycephalies)

  1. A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.
    Synonyms:
    turricephaly

Synonyms of oxycephaly

Forms of oxycephaly

pluraloxycephalies

Origin of oxycephaly

From oxy- + -cephaly.

Words formed from oxycephaly

Questions about oxycephaly

What does oxycephaly mean?
Oxycephaly means a kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.
What part of speech is oxycephaly?
Oxycephaly is a noun.
What is the plural of oxycephaly?
The plural of oxycephaly is oxycephalies.

Words near oxycephaly in the dictionary

  1. oxycellulose
  2. oxycelluloses
  3. oxycephalic
  4. oxycephalies
  5. oxycephalism
  6. oxycephaly
  7. oxychalcogenide
  8. oxychalcogenides
  9. oxychlordane
  10. oxychloric
  11. oxychloride

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