Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The condition is called deformational plagiocephaly, from the Greek plagios (“slanted”) and kephalé (“head”). It comes from steady outside pressure on a skull that is still soft, not from a […]

Cualquier pediatra ha visto alguna vez a un bebé que pasa tantas horas tumbado sobre la espalda que acaba con la parte de atrás de la cabeza aplanada de un lado. Se llama plagiocefalia deformacional, un término que viene del griego plagios («oblicuo») y kephalé («cabeza»), y se debe a una presión externa y sostenida […]