Cymbocephaly

/ˌsɪmbɔˈsɛfəli/ noun

Definition

A condition or characteristic of having a boat-shaped head; a rare anthropological or medical term for a specific cranial shape.

Etymology

From Greek kymbe (boat) + -cephaly (from kephalē, head, + -y forming abstract nouns). This is the noun form that nominates the condition itself.

Kelly Says

The '-y' ending turns adjectives into nouns describing conditions (like 'allergy,' 'therapy,' 'acephaly'), and cymbocephaly was a term 19th-century anthropologists loved but modern science abandoned because skull shapes don't fit neat categories!

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