Usually means: Short, broad skull; flat face.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word brachycephalic:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. brachycephalic: Merriam-Webster
  2. brachycephalic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brachycephalic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brachycephalic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brachycephalic: Vocabulary.com
  6. brachycephalic: Wordnik
  7. brachycephalic: Wiktionary
  8. brachycephalic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. brachycephalic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. brachycephalic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. brachycephalic: Dictionary.com
  12. Brachycephalic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Brachycephalic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. brachycephalic: Rhymezone
  15. brachycephalic: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. Brachycephalic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. brachycephalic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. brachycephalic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. brachycephalic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brachycephalic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. brachycephalic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Brachycephalic: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. brachycephalic: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brachycephalic)

adjective:  (anatomy, of a person or animal) Having a head that is short from front to back (relative to its width from left to right); having a broad skull with a cephalic index over 80.
noun:  A brachycephalic person or creature; someone with a short, broad skull, typically indicated by a cephalic index over 80.

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