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What does macrocephaly mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A condition in which the head is abnormally large.
  2. (geography) The excessive concentration of population and development in a single centre, to the detriment of other areas.
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Macrocephaly and frontal bossing can also be found in the first year of life, which causes the typical face appearance in patients with this disease.
Clinical findings during early childhood may include macrocephaly and frontal bossing.
Measurement of the head circumference is vital to detect associated microcephaly or macrocephaly.
If we find a circumference greater than normal, we are beginning to enter upon the anomaly which goes by the name of macrocephaly.
Macrocephaly is a common finding in MPS, often associated with metopic beaking and a scaphocephalic configuration.
The center of this novel is Jack Plum, a thirty-something suffering from macrocephaly, which leaves him isolated and feeling like a monster.

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