What's the difference between acephali and eutychian?

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.

Eutychian


Definition:

  • (n.) A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

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