What's the difference between acephali and acephalic?
Acephali
Definition:
(n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
(n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.
(n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
(n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hypothesis about the frequency of the association between acephaly and acardy is proposed.
(2) Three cases of monozygous male twins having exencephaly, anencephaly, and acephaly, with their cotwins being normal, are reported.
(3) Similarly the adrenal gland hypoplasia does not depend upon the absence of the pituitary gland due to the concurrent condition of acephaly.
Acephalic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In the acardiac, acephalic twin malformation the normal co-twin is put at risk because of the extra cardiac work-load.
(2) Even though motility was decreased, there were numerous acephalic sperms with different degrees of forward motility.
(3) Two cases are reported of acardiac-acephalic twin pregnancy, a rare malformation of multiple gestations with large placental vascular anastomosis.
(4) A case of an acardiac acephalic monster is described, and the literature concerning the incidence, classification and etiology of acardia is reviewed.
(5) Six ouf of eight cases were classified as an acephalous type, and two as an acardius anceps fetus.
(6) A case of acardiac, acephalic twin diagnosed by antenatal ultrasound is reported.
(7) Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) inoculated intraperitoneally with three acephalic cysts of Echinococcus multilocularis were very susceptible to infection.
(8) The deficient development of the peripheral immunopoietic system in acardiac acephalous monsters cannot be explained only by the absence of the thymus.
(9) We report an interesting case of a macrosomic acardiac acephalic fetus weighing 4.5-fold of another variable donor fetus (approximately 6 kg) in a twin pregnancy.