Etymology · Ancient Greek
ἀκέφαλος
5 English words descend from Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος, most common first.
- acephalousHaving no head.
- acephalOne of the Acephala.
- acephaliA people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
- acephaliteA radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).
- acephalocystA larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.