microcephaly

What does microcephaly mean?

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

How many syllables are in microcephaly?

microcephaly has 5 syllables and divides as mi-cro-ce-pha-ly 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 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.