pachycephalic

Adjective

pachycephalic (comparative more pachycephalic, superlative most pachycephalic)

1. Characteristic of or characterized by pachycephaly.
   • Thus, synostosis of the sagittal suture, with growth on the anterior and posterior margins of the parietal, produces a long or dolico-cephalic head; synotosis of the coronal gives rise to the platycephalic variety of the brachyeephalic head ; of the lambdoidal to the pachycephalic variety, and so...1862, A Year-book of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences
   • I possess the skull of a woman of middle age, dolichocephalic, with a cephalic index of 77, and pachycephalic, which has no synostosis of any suture; and I have seen the cranium of a leptocephalic old woman, which not only has no synostosis of any suture, but in which, after maceration, the sutures...1873, J. Barnard Davis, “Upon a Scaphoid Skull: A Letter from Prof. Luigi Calori to Dr. Barnard Davis”, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 147
2. Thick-skulled; stupid and imperceptive.
   • The fact that the Adams patent should ever have received recognition in the temple of justice proves that a judge may be learned in the law, but woefully pachycephalic in matters scientific.1880 July, “Progress In Science and the Arts”, in Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 30, page 8
   • Some of the Westerners are so pachycephalic and vulgar that they fail utterly to appreciate such dainty delicacies.1883, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 24, page 472