megacephaly

1. 1.

   an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical

   Synonymsmacrocephalymegalocephaly

   Broaderabnormality

Other forms of megacephaly

plural

megacephalies·

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 megacephaly

What does megacephaly mean?

megacephaly means "an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical".

How many syllables are in megacephaly?

megacephaly has 5 syllables: me-ga-ce-pha-ly. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for megacephaly?

Close synonyms include macrocephaly, megalocephaly. 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 megacephaly a common word?

megacephaly 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.