Wiktionary
a. (context pathology English) Pertaining to or characteristic of acromegaly. (from 19th c.) n. (context pathology English) A person affected by acromegaly. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
adj. having abnormal size with overgrown extremities resulting from abnormal pituitary secretion; "a protruding acromegalic jaw"; "a pituitary dwarf" [syn: pituitary]
Usage examples of "acromegalic".
It could produce horrible discords, turn John into an idiot, say, or an invalid, as it tried to do, or perhaps an acromegalic monster, with gigantic hands and head, by stimulating bone-growth after maturity.
Part of me wondered what the hell I was doing, but still I kept banging and kicking and screaming like an acromegalic cretin in labor screaming at her fetus COME ON DOWN, YOU BASTARD, COME ON DOWN!
His face, with the distorted, swollen features of an acromegalic, turned incuriously to look in their direction.
His head was half again normal size, with a brute shelf of acromegalic jaw.
I think, and then the identity of the acromegalic wine drinker becomes clear to me.