anencephaly

1. 1.

   a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres

   Synonymsanencephalia

   Broaderbirth defect

Other forms of anencephaly

plural

anencephalies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anencephaly

What does anencephaly mean?

anencephaly means "a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres".