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Platycephalic :: Platycephalic (a.) Alt. of Platycephalou.

Dolichocephalous :: Dolichocephalous (a.) Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic..

Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..

Protoconch :: Protoconch (n.) The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods..

Cephalology :: Cephalology (n.) The science which treats of the head.

Prosencephalic :: Prosencephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Cephaloptera :: Cephaloptera (n.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton..

Microcephalic :: Microcephalic (a.) Alt. of Microcephalou.

Procerebrum :: Procerebrum (n.) The prosencephalon.

Duykerbok :: Duykerbok (n.) A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo..

Prosoma :: Prosoma (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod..

Monocephalous :: Monocephalous (a.) Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.

Brachyura :: Brachyura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix..

Scaphite :: Scaphite (n.) Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation..

Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Without a leader or chief.

Head :: Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon..

Autocephalous :: Autocephalous (a.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches..

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

Epen :: Epen (n.) See Epencephalon.

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