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plagiocephalic, a.|ˌpleɪdʒɪəʊsɪˈfælɪk|
[f. plagio- + Gr. κεϕαλή head + -ic.]
a. Anthropol. (See quot.)
1874Busk in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. III. 90 note, Linnæus's term plagiocephalic is emphatically descriptive of the more common form of American skull, and may be conveniently used to distinguish the broad head, with flattened forehead, so characteristic of the greater part of the American races.
b. Path. Characterized by plagiocephaly.
1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. v. 178 The obliquely oval or plagiocephalic deformity. 1888Syd. Soc. Lex., Idiocy, plagiocephalic,..one of Shuttleworth's divisions including idiots with heads so distorted that the features lie in an oblique plane.
So plagioˈcephalous = prec. b; plagioˈcephaly, oblique deformity of the skull, consisting in the greater development of the anterior part on one side and of the posterior part on the other.
1890Cent. Dict., Plagiocephalous, Plagiocephaly. 1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Plagiocephalous,..having the skull awry; the result of asymmetrical development, and the premature synostosis of the frontal with one of the parietal bones. Ibid., Plagiocephaly, the condition of being plagiocephalous. |