acrocephalicadj.
/ˌakrə(ʊ)sᵻˈfalɪk/, /ˌakrə(ʊ)kɛˈfalɪk/, U.S. /ˌækroʊsəˈfælɪk/ Physical Anthropology and Medicine.
Of a skull: having a relatively or abnormally large ratio of height to breadth. Also: having such a skull.In Medicine, often used synonymously with oxycephalic adj.
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short-headed1802
beloid1833
microcephalous1840
platycephalous1846
long-skulled1847
round-headed1847
brachycephalic1849
dolichocephalic1849
acrocephalic1855
megacephalous1857
microcephalic1857
cymbocephalic1861
macrocephalous1861
platycephalic1861
macrocephalic1863
phaenozygous1863
dolichocephalous1864
homoeocephalic1866
mecistocephalic1866
mecocephalic1866
mesocephalic1866
orthocephalic1866
stenocephalic1866
cryptozygous1867
megalocephalic1868
aphanozygous1871
brachycephalous1872
orthocephalous1872
mesaticephalic1873
plagiocephalic1873
plagiocephalic1874
mesaticephalous1876
mesorrhine1877
platyrrhine1877
cylindro-cephalic1878
eurycephalic1878
hypsistenocephalic1878
megaseme1878
mesoseme1878
microseme1878
oxycephalic1878
oxyklinocephalic1878
platybasic1878
pyrgocephalic1878
tapinocephalic1878
megacephalic1879
hypsiconchous1885
mesoconchous1885
chamaeprosopic1886
leptocephalic1886
mesorrhinian1887
long-headed1888
tectocephalic1888
mecistocephalous1890
megalocephalous1890
plagiocephalous1890
mesocephal1891
stegoid1894
brachycranial1902
chamaecephalic1902
chamaeconchic1902
chamaecranial1902
macrocranial1902
platycranial1902
stenocranial1904
mesoconch1905
mesoconchic1909
hypsiconch1920
Lapponoid1939
hypsiconchic1960
1855 J. B. Davis in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1854 ii. 128 Having thus enumerated the chief peculiarities of the typical British cranium, we may advert to its leading aberrant forms... They will be easily understood as the abbreviated, or strictly brachy-cephalic; the elongated, or dolicho-cephalic; the elevated, or, to continue the terms, the acro-cephalic; and the expanded, or platy-cephalic.
1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. v. 176 Acrocephalic,..elevated skull.
1923 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 53 142 So that while the Bushman is tapeinocephalic, the Hottentot is acrocephalic.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 21 409 The child had a typical acrocephalic skull with hypertelorism, slight exophthalmos and anti-mongoloid obliquity of the palpebral fissures.
2008 B. R. Benacerraf Ultrasound Fetal Syndromes (ed. 2) 316/1 This condition [sc. Pfeiffer syndrome] is characterized by an acrocephalic skull, syndactyly of the hands and feet, and large thumbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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