Meanings
- medicineThe condition of having an abnormally large head.
He had collected thirty-three cases of craniotomy for idiocy and macrocephalus, and found that the results were always negative.
1894 April 7, Medical Record, page 4352 more examples
Benedikt called attention to the frequency of leptocephalus and macrocephalus in hemiplegia and paraplegia spastica infantilis, and to the frequency of asymmetry in the first-mentioned disease.
1889 April 6, Frederick Peterson, “Cranial measurements in twenty cases of infantile cerebral hemiplegia”, in The New York Medical JournalA radionuclide salivagram of a 4-year-old girl with recurrent lung infections, macrocephalus, psychomotor retardation, and seizure disorder was obtained due to suspected aspiration.
2007, G.A. Taylor, S.T. Treves, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PETSynonyms: macrocephaly
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition of having an abnormally large head.
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