Usually means: Premature fusion of skull bones.
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  1. oxycephaly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. oxycephaly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. oxycephaly: Vocabulary.com
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  5. oxycephaly: Wiktionary
  6. oxycephaly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. oxycephaly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. oxycephaly: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. oxycephaly: Dictionary.com
  10. Oxycephaly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  12. oxycephaly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. oxycephaly: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. oxycephaly: Encyclopedia

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  1. oxycephaly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (oxycephaly)

noun:  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.

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