Headless (disambiguation)

Being headless is acrania, the failure of an individual animal to develop a head, despite belonging to a species that normally does so.

Headless or Acrania may also refer to:

Science and technology

Medicine

  • Acephaly (medicine), a condition where a headless lower body can live if not detached from the body of its more normal twin
  • Decapitation, the severing of the whole head from the body

Computing

Linguistics

  • Headless phrase, a term in linguistics for a phrase with no head

Geology

Media and pop culture

Literature

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