Definition of Microcephalies

1. microcephaly [n] - See also: microcephaly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcephalies

microcausality
microcavities
microcavity
microcelebrities
microcelebrity
microcell
microcells
microcellular
microcentrifugation
microcentrifuge
microcentrifuges
microcentrum
microcephalic
microcephalics
microcephalies (current term)
microcephalin
microcephalins
microcephalous
microcephalus
microchannel
microchannels
microchapter
microchapters
microcharcoal
microcharge
microcharges
microcheilia

Literary usage of Microcephalies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"Accordingly it results that even in microcephalies there is no constant relation between size of brain and mental capacity. Description—Physical Condition. ..."

2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"The microcephalies exhibit the most diverse forms of fissuration, the value of which may, so far as the brain is concerned, be estimated on the basis of the ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1903)
"microcephalies usually come of a pronounced neuropathic stock ; their brothers and sisters, as a rule, are typical degenerates, and frequently one or more ..."

4. Mental Pathology and Therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger (1867)
"In the other, less numerous class of microcephalies, all the cranial ... In many microcephalies the brain is even smaller than might be presumed from the ..."

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