tapinocephalic

tap·i·no·ce·phal·ic

(tap'i-nō-sĕ-fal'ik, tă-pī'nō-),

Having a low flat head; relating to tapinocephaly.

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tapinocephalic

(tăp″ĭn-ō-sĕf-ăl′ĭk) [Gr. tapeinos, lying low, + kephale, head]

Pert. to flatness of the top of the cranium.

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chamecephalic

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In addition to a dense underbrush of the jargon of literary criticism, the reader here must struggle against sentences peppered with words such as "alembic," "tapinocephalic," "synecdoche," "moschiferous," or "priapic." Ward has made his book impenetrable to most.

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