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What does brachycephaly mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) A congenital condition wherein the skull is flattened front-to-back, so that the head is short and broad.
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The Pawnees and Kiowas are tall and mesocephalic, with a tendency towards brachycephaly.
His was a severe case of brachycephaly when I first saw him, but he has seen excellent growth and has done really well.
The head shapes include brachycephaly, scaphocephaly, and trigonocephaly.
To correct brachycephaly both fused sutures are removed and the skull is narrowed and lengthened.
Now six-month-old Lucy has been diagnosed with severe Brachycephaly and Plagiocephaly, commonly known as Flat Head Syndrome, causing her head to be misshapen.
Simple brachycephaly is due to early synostosis of the nasal and sphenoid.

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