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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "of or referring to the head",
"word": "başçıl"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "holovnýj",
"sense": "of or referring to the head",
"word": "головни́й"
}
],
"word": "cephalic"
}
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