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oxycephaly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
oxy-cephaly
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From oxy- + -cephaly.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

oxycephalies (plural)

Derived Forms

oxycephalic

Synonyms

turricephaly acrocephaly

Questions

What does oxycephaly mean?
A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.
Where does oxycephaly come from?
From oxy- + -cephaly.

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