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Definition of Hydrocephalic
1. Adjective. Relating to or characterized by or evidencing hydrocephalus.
Definition of Hydrocephalic
1. a. Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.
Definition of Hydrocephalic
1. Adjective. hydrocephalous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydrocephalic
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hydrocephalic
1. Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrocephalic
Literary usage of Hydrocephalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"The condition is apparently due to the collection of hydrocephalic fluid at a
time when the cerebral cortex is still in the initial stages of its ..."
2. Obstetrics, Normal and Operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"Palpating the hydrocephalic head. profoundly influenced. ... It is possible for
a hydrocephalic head of considerable size to become so moulded as to enter ..."
3. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1881)
"MATTHEWS DUNCAN presented notes of a case of a child horn hydrocephalic, with
only stumps of arms and with deformity of both lower limbs, and exhibited the ..."
4. Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society by Edinburgh Obstetrical Society (1905)
"V. hydrocephalic INFANT DELIVERED BY SPINAL TAPPING. ... If, however, the head
happen .to be hydrocephalic as well as after-coming, the most careful ..."
5. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"(a) Porencephalic. (fc) Sclerotic. (d) Syphilitic. (c) hydrocephalic. (e) Amaurotic
and other forms of cerebral degeneration. ..."
6. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1865)
"Hence, the weight of a hydrocephalic skull is not much, if at all, greater than
that of a healthy one ; a large parietal bone,* measuring nine inches ..."
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