a. Phys. [f. Gr. ἀνεγκέφαλ-ος + -IC.] = ANENCEPHALOUS.
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., III. 720/2. Anencephalic fœtuses.
1848. Sir J. Simpson, in Month. Jrnl. Med. Sc., IX. 241, note. The want of the head in the anencephalic child born at Dundee … might have been as logically ascribed to the mother’s use of chloroform, as the purpura in the above instance.
