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What does microcephaly mean?

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Noun
  1. A neurological disorder in which the person affected has an abnormally small head due to a failure of brain growth.
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Lombroso attributes a series of cases of microcephaly to profound mental impressions occurring during pregnancy.
Second, it showed that what seems to be going wrong in microcephaly is that the process of development is running too fast.
The present clinical picture is one characterised by marked mental retardation, microcephaly, craniofacial dysmorphia and physical malformations.
Measurement of the head circumference is vital to detect associated microcephaly or macrocephaly.
Both patients showed neurological symptoms from the neonatal period with poor reactivity, hypotonia, and severe microcephaly.
Congenital brain anomalies like microcephaly, abnormal cortical mantle formation, agenesis of the corpus callosum have been reported.

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