What is "oxycephaly"

n. A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fuse of all sutures.

n. a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape [syn: acrocephaly]

Oxycephaly, also known as turricephaly, acrocephaly, hypsicephaly, oxycephalia, steeple head, tower head, tower skull, high-head syndrome and Turmschädel, is a type of cephalic disorder where the top of the skull is pointed or conical due to premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, like the lambdoid, or it may be used to describe the premature fusion of all sutures. It should be differentiated from Crouzon syndrome. Oxycephaly is the most severe of the craniosynostoses.