cephalo-, cephal-; -cephalic, -cephalism, -cephalous, -cephalus; -cephaly

Divination by boiling a donkey’s head on burning coals: It was quite gruesome ro read about cephalomancy, that some people of times past believed in, by interpreting the skull of a donkey or goat as it roasted on hot coals.

In pathology, an illness concerning the head; encephalopathy: Cephalopathy pertains particularly to the brain, and most often to the chronic degenerative state.

1. The surgical cutting of the fetal head to make delivery of the baby easier.
2. A dissection of the fetal head.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Having the face or head of a dog.

Resembling hydrocephalus because of an apparently enlarged cranium which is seen in some cases of starvation, but without any abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid.