Definition of Anencephalia

1. Noun. A defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres.


Medical Definition of Anencephalia

1. A congenital absence of the brain and cranial vault, with the cerebral hemispheres completely missing or greatly reduced in size. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anencephalia

anemony
anemophilous
anemophily
anemophobia
anemophyte
anemophytes
anemorphilous
anemorumbometer
anemorumbometers
anemoscope
anemoscopes
anemoscopy
anemoses
anemosis
anemotrophy
anencephalic
anencephalies
anencephalous
anend
anenst
anent
anenterous
aneolithic
anephric
anepia
anepigraphic
anepiploic

Literary usage of Anencephalia

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

1. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"Several cases of anencephalia have been observed in the same family. The presence of anencephalia does not necessarily involve death of the foetus. ..."

2. A Text-book on Nervous Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1895)
"anencephalia. This is a condition which is usually associated with a defective development of the meninges and cranial vault. ..."

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