acrocephaly = oxycephalic = trricephaly = this term maybe applied to tower headed condition (the top of the head is pointed)
anencephaly = absent of skull and cerebral cortex
arhinencephaly = congenital absence of the rhinencephalon
arthrogryposis = this term implies contracture of a joint
brachycephaly = the head is too short
cranial hyperostosis = bone overgrowth
cephalocele = protrusion of intracranial contents
craniostenosis = craniosynostosis = premature closure of skull sutures
dolicephaly = the head is too long
dystopia canthorum = intercanthal distance is increased, but not the interpupillary or (bony) interorbital distances
encephalocele = part of the brain protrudes from the skull
hydrocephalus = water on the brain
haloprosencephaly = hypotelorism with cleft palate
lissencephalic = bat-like brain with no convulutions (ahyria)
micrognathia = the mandible is too small
metopic suture = this is the same with frontal suture
macrocephaly = the head is abnormally large (includes the scalp, the cranial bone, and the contents of the cranium)
megalencephaly = enlarged brain
microcephaly = head is abnormalaly small
meningocele = dura and arachnoid mater bulge through the defect
myelocele = segments of the cord are exposed with no covering
myelomeningocele = the cord’s central canal is exposed
neurocraium = the part of the skull holding the brain
obelion = the point of the saggital suture crossed by a line joining the parietal foramina
plagiocephaly =an asymmetrical, twisted head (e.g.: irregular closure of the cranial sutures)
rachischisis = congenital fissure of the spinal column
sinciput = the anterior, upper part of the head
spina bifida = incomplete vertebral arch
spina bifida occulta = the defect is covered by skin and fascia
viscerocranium = facial skeleton
wormian bones = supernumerary bonesin the sutures of the skull
