Definition of Hydrocephaly

1. Noun. An abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological.

Exact synonyms: Hydrocephalus
Generic synonyms: Abnormalcy, Abnormality
Derivative terms: Hydrocephalic, Hydrocephalic

Definition of Hydrocephaly

1. Noun. hydrocephalus ¹

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Definition of Hydrocephaly

1. [n -LIES]

Medical Definition of Hydrocephaly

1. An increased quantity of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) inside the brain that can result in increased pressure. Often the result of a disturbance (obstruction) in the normal CSF circulation or the over-production of CSF. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrocephaly

hydrocele colli
hydrocele feminae
hydrocele muliebris
hydrocelectomy
hydroceles
hydrocephalic
hydrocephalics
hydrocephalies
hydrocephalocele
hydrocephaloid
hydrocephalous
hydrocephalus ex vacuo
hydrocephaluses
hydrocephaly (current term)
hydrocerussite
hydrochemical
hydrochemistry
hydrochlorate
hydrochlorates
hydrochlorborite
hydrochloric
hydrochloric acid
hydrochloric acids
hydrochloride
hydrochlorides
hydrochlorination
hydrochlorofluorocarbon
hydrochlorofluorocarbons

Literary usage of Hydrocephaly

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

1. Idiocy: And Its Treatment by the Physiological Method by Edward Seguin (1866)
"Their head is of the bulk attributed to hydrocephaly, though sometimes pertaining to primitive hypertrophy, followed by atrophy. The forehead, the coronal ..."

2. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"A noted case is that of Helmholtz, whose brain showed at the autopsy the residue of the hydrocephaly from which he suffered in infancy. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It has been maintained by Perls, and more guardedly by Edinger, that hydrocephaly in youth is an advantage in enlarging the skull and giving the brain space ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It has been maintained by Perls, and more guardedly by Edinger, that hydrocephaly in youth is an advantage in enlarging the skull and giving the brain space ..."

5. Degeneracy; Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene Solomon Talbot (1898)
"1 o), without hydrocephaly. These two conditions result from the inability of the dermal bones to fill at the proper period the gaps in FIG. i). the ..."

6. Lectures on diseases of children by Robert Hutchison (1906)
"Opposed to microcephaly is hydrocephaly, in which the head is unusually large. ... hydrocephaly is not, however, a common cause of mental deficiency, ..."

7. Manual of Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene: The Foetus by John William Ballantyne (1902)
"257, 1885), all save one went to the full term ; of the infants, one died in two days, a second succumbed to hydrocephaly at the twenty-first month, ..."

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