cebocephaly

cebocephaly

 [se″bo-sef´ah-le] a monkeylike deformity of the head, with the eyes close together and the nose defective.

ce·bo·ceph·a·ly

(sē'bō-sef'ă-lē), Malformation of the head in which the features are suggestive of a monkey, with defective or absent nose and closely set eyes; part of the holoprosencephaly spectrum. [G. kēbos, monkey, + kephalē, head]

cebocephaly

An obsolete, nonspecific term for a craniofacial malformation that has morphologic features of a monkey; components of cebocephaly are seen in anencephaly, arrhinencephaly, cyclopia and microcephaly.