What's the difference between acrocephaly and oxycephaly?
Acrocephaly
Definition:
(n.) Loftiness of skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) The typical features of acrocephaly and symmetrical syndactyly were seen.
(2) Apert (1906) was the first to identify a syndrome characterized by the association of acrocephaly with syndactyly, acrocephalosyndactylism.
(3) A newborn boy presented with an acrocephaly characterized by a coronal craniosynostoses, open sagittal sutures and abnormally high and straight forehead.
(4) Developmental delay was not pronounced in the patient's mother or sister; craniofacial characteristics at variance with the characteristic description included acrocephaly and maxillary prominence.
(5) Acrocephalosyndactyly (Apert syndrome) is a rare craniosynostotic syndrome characterized by acrocephaly, syndactyly of the hands and feet, and--occasionally--conductive hearing loss.
(6) A family is described in which 15 persons in five generations are affected with a complex of skeletal malformations which variably includes peculiar asymmetric facies, delayed closure of large fontanels, brachycephaly, acrocephaly, brachydactyly, cutaneous syndactyly, broad great toes, and mild shortness of stature.
(7) They were characterized as follows: cerebral maldevelopment, dwarfism and cataracts (autosomal recessive inheritance); cerebral maldevelopment, dwarfism and facial osteoproliferation (autosomal recessive inheritance); cerebral maldevelopment and colobomata (autosomal recessive inheritance); and cerebral maldevelopment and acrocephaly (X-linked recessive inheritance).
(8) The diagnosis was based on the clinical appearance (phenotype) showing acrocephaly and syndactyly of both hands and feet, supported by skull roentgenography and ultrasonography.
(9) In 1969, Herrmann and Opitz described a syndrome of acrocephaly, oligosyndactyly, hypertelorism, and mental retardation.
(10) Two sisters born to consanguineous parents had a syndrome of short stature, acrocephaly, hypertelorism, proptosis, ptosis, down-slanting palpebral fissures, high nose bridge and anteverted nares, short philtrum, cleft palate, micrognathia, abnormal external ears, preauricular pits, sensorineural and conductive deafness, proximally placed first toes and digitalized thumbs, bulbous digits, metatarsus adductus, and pectus excavatum.
(11) They had acrocephaly, hypertelorism, antimongoloid slant of the palpebral fissures, protrusion of the eyes, large and broad nose, small mandible, irregularly placed teeth, additional upper canine, high-arched palate, partial syndactyly of fingers and toes, brachydactyly of toes, valgus deformity of hypertrophied triangular great toes, broad phalanges of the great toes and broad first metatarsals, accessory epiphyses lateral to the interphalangeal joint of the great toes, and normal intelligence.
(12) On the cranial deformities, 7 cases of scaphocephaly, 4 cases of oxycephaly and 3 cases of acrocephaly were diagnosed.
(13) Distinctive features present in all 6 children include microcephaly, acrocephaly, prominent forehead, flat facial profile, depressed nasal bridge, flat malar areas, "carp" mouth, micrognathia and mental retardation.
(14) Report of a boy aged 16 years with LEBER's congenital amaurosis, which is associated with typical nystagmus and further severe general retardation, including ossification, imbecillity, acrocephaly, dysraphia and cardiomyopathia.
(15) Agenesis of the corpus callosum and malformation of limbic structures are described in a patient with Apert syndrome, a disorder characterized by acrocephaly, severe syndactyly, and often, mental retardation.
(16) The syndrome consists of acrocephaly, soft tissue syndactyly, brachy- or agenesis mesophalangy of the hands and feet, preaxial polydactyly, congenital heart disease, mental retardation, hypogenitalism, obesity, and umbilical hernia.