plagiocephaly

1. 1.

   congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique

   Broaderdeformitybirth defect

Other forms of plagiocephaly

plural

plagiocephalies·

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 plagiocephaly

What does plagiocephaly mean?

plagiocephaly means "congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique".

How many syllables are in plagiocephaly?

plagiocephaly has 6 syllables: pla-gi-o-ce-pha-ly. The stress falls on "ce".

Is plagiocephaly a common word?

plagiocephaly 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.