Definition of Hydrocephalics

1. hydrocephalic [n] - See also: hydrocephalic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrocephalics

hydrocarbylidyne
hydrocarbylidynes
hydrocarbyls
hydrocast
hydrocasts
hydrocauli
hydrocaulus
hydrocele colli
hydrocele feminae
hydrocele muliebris
hydrocelectomy
hydroceles
hydrocephalic
hydrocephalics (current term)
hydrocephalies
hydrocephalocele
hydrocephaloid
hydrocephalous
hydrocephalus ex vacuo
hydrocephaluses
hydrocephaly
hydrocerussite
hydrochemical
hydrochemistry
hydrochlorate
hydrochlorates
hydrochlorborite

Literary usage of Hydrocephalics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... imply mental inferiority, since the enlargement may sometimes be due to causes external to the brain, and as a fact some hydrocephalics are intelligent. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"... large numbers of patients with idiocy, imbecility and hydrocephalics. The creation of this situation has within it certain features worth taking into ..."

3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1906)
"Epileptics, idiots, and hydrocephalics have also been reported by some authors (13) to be particularly prone to ..."

4. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1873)
"... congenital idiots may have water in the head, or crania abnormally small, or have a liability to fits, and thus be reclaimed as hydrocephalics, ..."

5. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"... hemiplegic idiots may live much longer, though it is infrequent for them to attain the age of forty and more years; hydrocephalics perish still earlier. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Annual Session by Colorado Teachers' Association (1877)
"Thirty or forty of the lowest grade epileptics and a great number of hydrocephalics, lying in carriages, were living in the open air. ..."

7. The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders: Clinical States Produced by Disorders by Harvey Cushing (1912)
"His three patients were all young hydrocephalics with typical constitutional features of dystrophia adiposo-genitalis; but it is obviously impossible to ..."

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