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Meaning of "megalocephaly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEGALOCEPHALY

megalocephaly  [ˌmɛɡələʊˈsɛfəlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEGALOCEPHALY

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Megalocephaly is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEGALOCEPHALY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Megalencephaly

Megalencephaly is a growth development disorder in which the brain is abnormally large. It is characterized by a brain with an average weight that is 2.5 standard deviations from the mean of the general population. Megalencephaly is usually diagnosed at birth and is confirmed with an MRI. A mutation in the PI3K-AKT pathway is believed to be the primary cause of brain proliferation and ultimately the root cause of megalencephaly. This mutation has produced a classification of brain overdevelopment that consists of two syndromes including, megalencephaly-capillary malformation and megalencephaly-polydactyly-polymicrogyria-hydrocephalus. Approximately 1 out of 50 children are said to have the characteristics of megalencephaly in the general population. There are several neuropsychiatric disorders linked with megalencephaly, however, studies have shown that autism is the most prevalent association with the malformation of MEG. Although no treatment currently exists for megalencephaly, management methods are focused at reducing deficits linked with autism. Most recent research is targeted at creating inhibitors to reduce the mutational pathway that causes megalencephaly.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEGALOCEPHALY


autocephaly
ˌɔːtəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
awfully
ˈɔːfəlɪ
brachycephaly
ˌbrækɪˈsɛfəlɪ
dolichocephaly
ˌdɒlɪkəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
fruitfully
ˈfruːtfəlɪ
hydrocephaly
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
macrencephaly
ˌmækrənˈsɛfəlɪ
macrocephaly
ˌmækrəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
masterfully
ˈmɑːstəfəlɪ
megacephaly
ˌmɛɡəˈsɛfəlɪ
mesaticephaly
ˌmɛsətɪˈsɛfəlɪ
mesocephaly
ˌmɛsəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
microcephaly
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
Offaly
ˈɒfəlɪ
oxycephaly
ˌɒksɪˈsɛfəlɪ
plagiocephaly
ˌpleɪdʒɪəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
purposefully
ˈpɜːpəsfəlɪ
scaphocephaly
ˌskæfəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
sinfully
ˈsɪnfəlɪ
unmercifully
ʌnˈmɜːsɪfəlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEGALOCEPHALY

megalith
megalithic
megalithic tomb
megalitre
megaloblast
megaloblastic
megaloblastic anaemia
megalocardia
megalocephalic
megalocephalous
megalodon
megalomania
megalomaniac
megalomaniacal
megalopic
megalopolis
megalopolitan
megalops
megalosaur
megalosaurian

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEGALOCEPHALY

acromegaly
anencephaly
anomaly
bialy
cardiomegaly
charcoaly
coaly
gravity anomaly
Healy
hepatomegaly
Italy
magnetic anomaly
mealy
mean anomaly
orthocephaly
paly
scaly
shaly
splenomegaly
Thessaly

Synonyms and antonyms of megalocephaly in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «megalocephaly» into 25 languages

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megalocephaly
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megalocephaly
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मेगालोसेफाली
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büyük kafalılık
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megalocephaly
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megalocephaly
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megalocephaly
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megalocephaly
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megalocephaly
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Trends of use of megalocephaly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGALOCEPHALY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGALOCEPHALY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGALOCEPHALY»

Discover the use of megalocephaly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to megalocephaly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Current Management in Child Neurology
Megalocephaly, statistically defined, means an OFC > 2 SD above the mean for the person's age and gender. Megalocephaly implies a neurologically defective individual, but the OFC of 2.5% of the normal population will exceed 2 SD.
Bernard L. Maria, 2009
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Current Management of Child Neurology
Megalocephaly, statistically defined, means an OFC > 2 SD above the mean for the person's age and gender. Megalocephaly implies a neurologically defective individual, but the OFC of 2.5% of the normal population will exceed 2 SD.
Maria, 2008
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The Journal of Mental Science
L3 5 6 g Q s s e s s e s 2 s” se 4 $ a <: 8 s < a g DECIDED MEGALOCEPHALY: DECIDED MEGALOCEPHALY : §~ Brains of exceptionally great size, Brains of exceptionally great size, § weighing 55 oz. av. or 1560 grmm. weighing 50 oz. or  ...
‎1867
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On the Weight of the Brain, and on the Circumstances ...
In each, the deficiency in cerebral mass was greater than in cerebellar ; the idiot boy had more cerebellum than the idiot woman ; the idiot woman had more cerebrum than the idiot boy."* Megalocephaly.— Eeferring to the male brain- weights ...
John Thurnam, 1866
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Thesaurus craniorum: Catalogue of the skulls of the various ...
Among our Asiatic Races the Khas is the only family which does not contain one skull reaching to the standard of megalocephaly. Nearly one-half the African families (6 out of 13) offer the same defective development, and afford no instance of ...
Joseph Barnard Davis, 1867
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Technique of the Neurologic Examination, Fifth Edition
Visualization techniques include ultrasound in fetuses and very young infants and CT or MRI (see Chapter 13). Causes of megalocephaly 1 . One of five conditions usually causes megalocephaly. Be able to recite these. See DeMyer ( 1999) for ...
William DeMyer, 2003
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Neurocutaneous Disorders: Phakomatoses & Hamartoneoplastic ...
The authors emphasised that some members of this patient's family were apparently asymptomatic carriers of the tumour, recognisable only by their megalocephaly (Ambler et al. 1969). Various concomitant abnormalities have been described ...
Martino Ruggieri, Ignacio Pascual Castroviejo, Concezio Di Rocco, 2009
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Pediatric neurology: principles & practice
MEGALOCEPHALY The term megalocephaly (macrocephaly) denotes an OFC that exceeds the mean by two or more standard deviations for the patient's age and gender. The OFC may already exceed two standard deviations by the ...
Kenneth F. Swaiman, Stephen Ashwal, 1999
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Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary ...
... become hypercritical, and the smaller the field, the greater the tendency to megalocephaly.183 The study for fourteen years of the variations in the colour scheme of the 1,300 species of tiger-beetles scattered over the earth may sterilize a ...
Sir William Osler, Shigeaki Hinohara, Hisae Niki, 2001
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The Encyclopedia of Neuropsychological Disorders
Specifically, Apert syndrome involves coronal suture synostosis, leading to megalocephaly. Megalocephaly is an abnormally large presentation of the head, without intracranial pressure. Agenesis of the corpus callosum, another serious ...
Chad A. Noggle, Raymond S. Dean, Arthur MacNeill Horton, 2012

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