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pachycephalia

pachycephalia is the alternative form of pachycephaly.

Meaning of pachycephaly

Noun

pachycephaly (uncountable)

  1. Abnormal thickening of the skull, especially that produced by synostosis of the parietal bone with the occipital bone.
    • The terms macro- and microcephalic are, in any case, quite generic, and simply indicate a morphological anomaly, which may include many widely different cases, such, for example, as rickets, hydrocephaly, pachycephaly, etc., all of which have in common the morphological characteristic of...1913, Maria Montessori, Pedagogical Anthropology, page 244

Questions about pachycephalia

What is pachycephalia the alternative form of?
Pachycephalia is the alternative form of pachycephaly.

Words near pachycephalia in the dictionary

  1. pachycarpous
  2. pachycaul
  3. pachycaulous
  4. pachycauls
  5. pachycauly
  6. pachycephalia
  7. pachycephalic
  8. pachycephalid
  9. pachycephalids
  10. pachycephalosaur
  11. pachycephalosauri

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