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Hydrocephalus   Listen
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Hydrocephalus  n.  (Med.) An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.





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... Bakwains are remarkably few. There is no consumption nor scrofula, and insanity and hydrocephalus are rare. Cancer and cholera are quite unknown. Small-pox and measles passed through the country about twenty years ago, and committed great ravages; but, though the former has since broken out on the coast ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone


Words linked to "Hydrocephalus" :   hydrocephaly, abnormalcy, abnormality, hydrocephalic


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