microcephaly

What does microcephaly mean?

microcephaly means "an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain".

How many syllables are in microcephaly?

microcephaly has 5 syllables: mi-cro-ce-pha-ly. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for microcephaly?

Close synonyms include microcephalus, nanocephaly. 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 microcephaly a common word?

microcephaly 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for microcephaly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.