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Definition of Acephalic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acephalic
Literary usage of Acephalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte der Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte (1904)
"Croom, J. Halliday, Note of a Case of acephalic acardiac Foetus 93) 330. Crosby,
siehe Jennings, HS (01) II 76. Cross, J., Modern Microscopy (95) I 516. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"An additional proof of this dualism is furnished by the observations of Hirschfeld
on embryos and acephalic monsters. In the human embryo the heart begins ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"From the description, and from the sketch which accompanied it, this was evidently
a true example of an acephalic foetus. The date of the observation is ..."
4. Obstetrics, normal and operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"Some time later the patient was delivered of an acephalic foetus. ... In the
acephalic foetus all that remains of what under other circumstances would be ..."
5. The Anatomy of the Brain: With a General View of the Nervous System by Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Robert Willis (1826)
"Comparative anatomy, and acephalic monstrosities among the mammalia and man,
furnish incontrovertible proofs of the brain not being the origin of the ..."
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