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- New Latin · learned borrowing fromanencephalia
- English todayanencephaly
Internationalism. Learned borrowing from New Latin anencephalia. By surface analysis, an- + encephaly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
anencephaly
Today it means: A lethal birth defect involving the abscence of a major portion of the brain and parts of the skull; absence of the encephalon. Full definition →
New Latin anencephalia