Sentences with phrase «term brachycephaly»

The term brachycephaly is rooted in Latin, «brachy» meaning short and «cephaly» meaning head.

In simple terms brachycephaly is a flattening of the face which many people find extremely appealing.

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Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

One of the most common measurements taken in the evaluation of brachycephaly and scaphocephaly is the cephalic ratio (cephalic index), which is a rather fancy term for the measurement taken by dividing the size of the widest part of a baby's skull by the longest part of the skull, in millimeters and multiplying by 100.