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Definition of Microcephalics
1. microcephalic [n] - See also: microcephalic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcephalics
Literary usage of Microcephalics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psychology of Subnormal Children by Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1920)
"Mental defectives who have exceptionally small heads have been designated
microcephalics. They present no special features other than extreme smallness of ..."
2. Types of Mental Defectives by Martin W. Barr, Earle Francis Maloney (1920)
"CHAPTER XII microcephalics Microcephaly ... ILLUSTRATIVE CASES CASES A AND
B.— microcephalics. These boys are brothers. Two other children died in early ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... from "The Growth of the Brain," by HH Donaldson, will indicate how such
essential averages are established. THE WEIGHT OF THE BRAIN IN microcephalics. ..."
4. Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori (1913)
"... microcephalics, which signifies possessed of a fine forehead: since, as we
have seen, it is precisely the shape of the forehead which determines ..."
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