Headless
Appearance
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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
- Headless system, a server with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached
- Headless software, software capable of working on a device without a graphical user interface
- Headless browser, a web browser without a graphical user interface
Linguistics
- Headless phrase, a term in linguistics for a phrase with no head
Geology
- Headless Formation, a geologic formation in Northwest Territories
Media and pop culture
- Headless (TV series) a British television series starring Patrick Robinson and Ginny Holder
- Headless, a foe in Ultima
- Headless, NPCs in The Matrix Online
- Headless (film), a 2015 horror film by Arthur Cullipher
- Acrania (band), a Mexican experimental death metal band
- Headless (band), an Italian hard rock band
- Mike the Headless Chicken (non-fiction), a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off
Literature
- Blemmyes (legendary creatures), a headless humanoid creature
- Headless Horseman (disambiguation)