macrocephalus

macrocephalus

1. (medicine) The condition of having an abnormally large head.
   • 1889 April 6, Frederick Peterson, “Cranial measurements in twenty cases of infantile cerebral hemiplegia”, in The New York Medical Journal:

     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.

   • 1894 April 7, Medical Record, page 435:

     He had collected thirty-three cases of craniotomy for idiocy and macrocephalus, and found that the results were always negative.

   • 2007, G.A. Taylor, S.T. Treves, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET:

     A radionuclide salivagram of a 4-year-old girl with recurrent lung infections, macrocephalus, psychomotor retardation, and seizure disorder was obtained due to suspected aspiration.

• macrocephaly

New Latin; from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “big”) + κεφάλη (kephálē, “head”) + -ος (-os).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ma.krɔˈkɛ.pʰa.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ma.kroˈt͡ʃɛː.fa.lus]

macrocephalus (feminine macrocephala, neuter macrocephalum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (New Latin) having a large head; macrocephalous

• Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.

First/second-declension adjective.