Definition of "anencephalous" [anencephalous]

• Without a brain. (adjective)

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• "A friend's daughter-in-law in her second trimester of pregnancy discovered that the fetus was anencephalous -- it had no upper skull or brain and would never achieve human consciousness."
• "Saviard * [469] delivered an anencephalous child at term which died in thirty-six hours."
• "Lundie 2.115 relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham describes a similar case of ten and a half months 'duration."