Meaning of pachycephaly | Babel Free

Definitions

Abnormal thickening of the skull, especially that produced by synostosis of the parietal bone with the occipital bone.

uncountable

Examples

“The terms macro- and microcephalic are, in any case, quite generic, and simply indicate⟳ a morphological anomaly, which may include⟳ many widely different cases, such, for example, as rickets, hydrocephaly, pachycephaly, etc., all of which have⟳ in common the morphological characteristic of macrocephaly.”

“Like⟳ Chaucer's Miller, David Ritchie, the original of Scott's Black Dwarf, was an example of pachycephaly; i.e., he had the ability to run⟳ through doors with his hard skull.”

“The Miller breaks doors with his head (lines 550-51). This claim⟳ is feasible, for several nineteenth- and twentieth-century men are know⟳ to have⟳ performed similar feats. Thus 'we may be sure that between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries stretched a long, thick-set line of heroes whose pachycephaly was exploited to stir⟳ the wonder⟳ and respect⟳ of their less gifted fellows' (p 419).”

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