oxycephaly

English

Etymology

From oxy- +‎ -cephaly.

Noun

oxycephaly (countable and uncountable, plural oxycephalies)

1. A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.

Synonyms

• turricephaly