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Meaning of "anencephalic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANENCEPHALIC

An- + encephalic.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANENCEPHALIC

anencephalic  [ˌænɛnsəˈfælɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANENCEPHALIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anencephalic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANENCEPHALIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anencephaly

Anencephaly is the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp that occurs during embryonic development. It is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the rostral end of the neural tube fails to close, usually between the 23rd and 26th days of conception. Strictly speaking, the translation of the Greek term to English is "no brain", but it is accepted that children with this disorder are born without a telencephalon, the largest part of the brain consisting mainly of the cerebral hemispheres, including the neocortex, which is responsible for cognition. The remaining brain tissue is often exposed, i.e. not covered by bone or skin. With very few exceptions, most babies with this disorder do not survive.

Definition of anencephalic in the English dictionary

The definition of anencephalic in the dictionary is born with no or only a partial brain.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANENCEPHALIC


brachiocephalic
ˌbreɪkɪəsɪˈfælɪk
brachycephalic
ˌbrækɪsɪˈfælɪk
cephalic
sɪˈfælɪk
diencephalic
ˌdaɪensɪˈfælɪk
dolichocephalic
ˌdɒlɪkəʊsɪˈfælɪk
encephalic
ˌɛnsɪˈfælɪk
hydrocephalic
ˌhaɪdrəʊsɛˈfælɪk
ithyphallic
ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk
megacephalic
ˌmɛɡəsɪˈfælɪk
mesencephalic
ˌmɛsɛnsɪˈfælɪk
metencephalic
ˌmɛtɛnsɪˈfælɪk
microcephalic
ˌmaɪkrəʊsɪˈfælɪk
myelencephalic
ˌmaɪɪlɛnsəˈfælɪk
orthocephalic
ˌɔːθəʊsɪˈfælɪk
oxycephalic
ˌɒksɪsɪˈfælɪk
phallic
ˈfælɪk
platycephalic
ˌplætɪsɪˈfælɪk
procephalic
ˌprəʊsɪˈfælɪk
telencephalic
ˌtɛlɛnsɪˈfælɪk
thalamencephalic
ˌθæləˌmɛnsəˈfælɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANENCEPHALIC

anemometrical
anemometry
anemone
anemone fish
anemophilous
anemophily
anemophobia
anemoscope
anemosis
anencephalia
anencephaly
anent
anergia
anergic
anergy
aneroid
aneroid barometer
anesthesia
anesthesiologist
anesthesiology

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANENCEPHALIC

acephalic
autocephalic
Daedalic
italic
leptocephalic
macrocephalic
malic
megalocephalic
mesaticephalic
mesocephalic
naphthalic
omphalic
pachalic
pashalic
prosencephalic
rhinencephalic
salic
scaphocephalic
terephthalic
zoocephalic

Synonyms and antonyms of anencephalic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anencephalic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANENCEPHALIC

Find out the translation of anencephalic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anencephalic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anencephalic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无脑畸形
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anencefálico
570 millions of speakers

English

anencephalic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

anencephalic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انعدام الدماغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

анэнцефала
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anencéfalo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

anencephalic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anencéphale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anencephalic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

anencephalic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無脳症の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

anencephalic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anencephalic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

anencephalic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

anencephalic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनेंसफेलिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anensefalik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anencefalico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anencephalic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аненцефала
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anencephalic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανεγκέφαλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anencephalic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anencephalic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anencephalic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anencephalic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANENCEPHALIC»

The term «anencephalic» is normally little used and occupies the 143.948 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANENCEPHALIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «anencephalic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «anencephalic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anencephalic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANENCEPHALIC»

Discover the use of anencephalic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anencephalic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
What is a Person?: An Ethical Exploration
The fetus was diagnosed as anencephalic, but the woman continued her pregnancy despite recommendations from her pediatrician and a neonatologist. At birth the baby had difficulty breathing, and a ventilator was begun. Within a few days ...
James William Walters, 1997
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and ...
In some ways, an anencephalic infant resembles what some call neocortically dead persons, and, as was mentioned in chapter 6, some people would like to equate the two. But the neocortically dead and the anencephalic infant differ in ...
Raymond J. Devettere, 2010
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A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die: The Ethics of Choice
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the courts accept the concept that the anencephalic fetus has never been alive despite the presence of a heartbeat21 and allow termination of pregnancy involving an anencephalic fetus at any time during ...
Barry S. Kogan, 1991
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Clinical Bioethics: Theory and Practice in Medical Ethical ...
Although the anencephalic fetus could continue to live within the mother without intervention to remove it, the length of fetal life, while counting for something, is not the key issue. The duration of biological existence without the necessary ...
James F. Drane, 1994
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Legal Medicine
Others have argued that anencephalic infants have no capacity to reason and thus are not “persons” within the meaning of governing statutes. They may be considered nonviable fetuses. Several states have introduced bills to allow a ...
Shafeek S. Sanbar, American College of Legal Medicine, 2007
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The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life
whose lives could have been saved by an organ transplanted from an anencephalic infant have died instead. It is true that the number of anencephalic infants born alive each year is small and growing smaller all the time, because the ...
Jeff McMahan, 2002
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Transplantation Ethics
Such interventions are sometimes attempted in adults and other potential donors and we do not, in principle, object in the case of anencephalic infants provided some strict criteria are met. One problem is in determining whether anencephalic  ...
Robert M. Veatch, 2000
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Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled
46 That approach is evident in the legal response to permanently unconscious beings at both ends of the trajectory of human existence — anencephalic newborns and adults who have deteriorated to a permanently vegetative state ( PVS).
Cantor
9
Brain Death: A Reappraisal
Pasquerella L, Smith S, Ladd R. Infants, the dead donor rule, and anencephalic organ donation: should the rules be changed? Med Law. 2001;20:417–423. Bard JS. The diagnosis is anencephaly and the parents ask about organ donation: ...
C. Machado, 2007
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Medical Ethics and Humanities
regulations were eventually overturned, but not before a large number of neonates were subjected to repeated surgeries and resuscitations for hopeless and futile conditions.16 Baby K (see also Chapters 5 and 15) was an anencephalic infant ...
Frederick Adolf Paola, Robert Walker, Lois LaCivita Nixon, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANENCEPHALIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anencephalic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Exploring Immortality in Bangkok
... that look every way but normal—conjoined, cyclopedic, hydrocephalic, anencephalic and harlequin, with chitinous skin and insectoid eyes. «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Cowardly Canadian docs cooperate with culture of death Wesley J …
Later, I was taught by my chief resident that if I was delivering a defective baby, such as an anencephalic, I should place it in the bucket of water ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
3
'My baby's alive, my baby's alive!': Baby lived 'several days' after …
Later, I was taught by my chief resident that if I was delivering a defective baby, such as an anencephalic, I should place it in the bucket of water ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
4
Nurses reveal how babies born alive after abortions are killed or left …
Later, I was taught by my chief resident that if I was delivering a defective baby, such as an anencephalic, I should place it in the bucket of water ... «Lifesite, Jun 15»
5
Ireland's abortion problem: new report lays bare the horrifying truth
Grainne, who was carrying an anencephalic pregnancy, a fatal condition where a significant portion of the foetus' brain fails to develop, also ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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'San Andreas' review: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson dumbs 'er down …
Like fellow anencephalic pictures such as "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012," "San Andreas" at least marks a technological progression ... «MLive.com, Jun 15»
7
A Growing Body of Research Shows That Fetuses Can Feel Pain
There is evidence, however, that the thalamus is capable of integrated nociception, which can explain the pain response in anencephalic ... «Medscape, May 15»
8
LifeSiteNews US Bureau Chief: Democrats who oppose 20-week …
Later, I was taught by my chief resident that if I was delivering a defective baby, such as an anencephalic, I should place it in the bucket of water ... «Lifesite, May 15»
9
FactCheck: Does a fetus feel pain at 20 weeks?
In fact, the same response can be seen in anencephalic infants, who are born missing large parts of the brain. As the JAMA review explains: ... «TucsonSentinel.com, May 15»
10
House Abortion Bill Wades Into Uncertain Moral Territory
An anencephalic fetus – a fetus with most or all of its brain missing, and little chance of survival – might today seem an apt candidate for ... «TheBlaze.com, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anencephalic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anencephalic>. May 2024 ».
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