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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anencephalic /ˌanɛnsɪˈfalɪk, -kɛˈfalɪk/

▶adjective Medicine having part or all of the cerebral hemispheres and the rear of the skull congenitally absent.

– derivatives
anencephaly noun.

– origin C19: from Gk anenkephalos ‘without brain’ + -ic.

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