Anencephalic
congenital absence of part or all of the brain.
historical examples
her own child was anencephalic and acranial, with entire absence of vault of skull.
studies in the psychology of s-x, volume 5 (of 6) havelock ellis
adjective
born with no or only a partial brain
adj.
“having no brain” (biology), 1839, from greek anenkephalos, from privative prefix an- (see an- (1)) + enkephalos “brain” (see encephalitis) + -ic.
anencephaly an·en·ceph·a·ly (ān’ən-sěf’ə-lē)
n.
congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.
an’en·ce·phal’ic (-sə-fāl’ĭk) or an’en·ceph’a·lous (-sěf’ə-ləs) adj.
anencephaly an·en·ceph·a·ly (an’en-sef’ā- lē)
n.
markedly defective development of the brain, together with absence of the bones of the cranial vault and the cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres, and with only a rudimentary brain stem and some traces of basal ganglia present
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