Definition of "macrocephalus"

Benedikt called attention to the frequency of leptocephalus and macrocephalus in hemiplegia and paraplegia spastica infantilis, and to the frequency of asymmetry in the first-mentioned disease.

1889 April 6, Frederick Peterson, “Cranial measurements in twenty cases of infantile cerebral hemiplegia”, in The New York Medical Journal

He had collected thirty-three cases of craniotomy for idiocy and macrocephalus, and found that the results were always negative.

1894 April 7, Medical Record, page 435

A radionuclide salivagram of a 4-year-old girl with recurrent lung infections, macrocephalus, psychomotor retardation, and seizure disorder was obtained due to suspected aspiration.

2007, G.A. Taylor, S.T. Treves, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET