Antonyms for microcephaly
ˌmaɪ kroʊˈsɛf ə limi·cro·cepha·ly

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1. microcephalynoun

   Synonyms:
   microcephalism, microcephalia

2. microcephalynoun

   A neurological disorder in which the person affected has an abnormally small head due to a failure of brain growth.

   Synonyms:
   microcephalia, microcephalism

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1. microcephaly, microcephalus, nanocephalynoun

   an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain

   Synonyms:
   microcephalus, nanocephaly

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1. microcephaly

   Synonyms:
   Microencephaly

How to use microcephaly in a sentence?

1. Jean Peron:

   This is a significant advance, but we still cannot scientifically state that Zika is the cause of microcephaly.

2. Mauricio Nogueira:

   Many, many things need to be looked at. How many people were asymptomatic? How many cases lead to microcephaly? What genetic factors are involved?

3. Rubens Belfort Jr.:

   The frequency and severity of the lesions makes it important every newborn suspected of Zika infection to have the the back of the eye examined by an ophthalmologist, it is possible some newborns that were infected by Zika and born without microcephaly could have ocular lesions.

4. Mayana Zatz:

   The third possibility that we want to investigate is that certain genes predispose the child to microcephaly, and they are altered by the presence of the Zika virus.

5. Albert Ko:

   One possibility is that those microcephaly babies are just the severest cases and that they are only a small proportion of all the babies who were infected.

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