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[mod.L., f. Gr. σκάϕη boat + κεϕαλή head: after hydrocephalus.]
‘Boat-shaped head’; a condition of the skull (caused by premature ossification of the sagittal suture preventing transverse development), in which the length greatly exceeds the breadth.
1865Thurnam in Nat. Hist. Rev. Apr. 247 In the Negro..the more marked features of true scaphocephalus are more rarely seen.
Hence scaphoceˈphalic, scaphoˈcephalous adjs., of or pertaining to scaphocephalus; scaphoˈcephalism, scaphoˈcephaly = scaphocephalus.
1863D. Wilson Preh. Ann. I. i. ix. 236 Professor v. Baer..proposes the term scaphocephalic to indicate the same boat-like head-form. 1888Amer. Naturalist July 614 Scaphocephalism..occurs from defective parietal bone formation. 1889Mayne's Med. Voc. (ed. 6), Scaphocephalous. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 240 There are other types [of idiots] of less importance, such as the amaurotic, syphilitic, choreic, scaphocephalic [etc.]. 1901Nature 12 Sept. 490/2 Two..papers..on deformed heads of living subjects; the one in a case of oxycephaly or acrocephaly and the other of scaphocephaly. |