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Hydrocephalic

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hy·dro·ceph·a·lus  (hdr-sf-ls) also hy·dro·ceph·a·ly (-l)
n.
A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.
[New Latin, from Greek hudrokephalon : hudro-, hydro- + kephal, head; see ghebh-el- in Indo-European roots.]
hydro·ce·phalic (-s-flk), hydro·cepha·loid (-loid), hydro·cepha·lous (-ls) adj.
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Adj.1.hydrocephalic - relating to or characterized by or evidencing hydrocephalus


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One might have fancied that the big-headed babies were toppling over with their hydrocephalic attempts to reckon up the children of men who transform their benefactors into their injurers by the same process.
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