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Keywords: Suture, Skull, Craniosynostosis, Cephalic, Parietal

Related Terms: Axis , Backbone, Calvaria, Cephalization, Coccygeal, Coccyx, Cranial, Cranium, Fontanel, Lordosis, Lumbar, Lumbosacral, Occiput, Plagiocephaly, Sacral, Sacrum, Scaphocephaly, Skull, Vertebra, Vertebral Column, Kyphosis, Spondylolisthesis, Fontanels, Fontanelle, Spinal Column, Occipital Condyle, Posterior Longitudinal Ligament, Retrolisthesis, Lumbar Spine, Transverse Process, Spinous Process, Vertebrae, Foramen Magnum, Thoracic Vertebrae, Cervical, Fontanelles, Thoracic Spine, Lumbar Region, Cervical Spine, Occipital Bone, Occipital, Coronal Suture, Spondylolysis, Craniosynostosis, Posterior Fossa, Pars Interarticularis, Anterior Fontanelle, Lumbar Vertebrae, Cervical Vertebrae

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The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

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Short wide head

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disproportionate shortness of the head.

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An abnormally short and broad head. (See Craniosynostosis; Sutures of the Skull)

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Brachycephaly is a type of cephalic disorder. This occurs when the coronal suture fuses prematurely, causing a shortened front-to-back diameter of the skull. The coronal suture is the fibrous joint that unites the frontal bone with the two parietal bones of the skull.

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