anencephalous

1. 1.

   characterized by partial or total absence of a brain

   Synonymsanencephalic

Questions about anencephalous

What does anencephalous mean?

anencephalous means "characterized by partial or total absence of a brain".

How many syllables are in anencephalous?

anencephalous has 5 syllables and divides as a-nen-ce-pha-lous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anencephalous?

Close synonyms include anencephalic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anencephalous a common word?

anencephalous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.