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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hi‧dro‧ce‧fa‧li‧a
Noun
hidrocefalia f (plural hidrocefalias)
- (medicine) hydrocephalus (fluid accumulation inside the brain)
Spanish
Etymology
From hidrocéfalo + -ia, from Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλος (hudroképhalos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /idɾoθeˈfalja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /idɾoseˈfalja/
- Rhymes: -alja
- Syllabification: hi‧dro‧ce‧fa‧lia
Noun
hidrocefalia f (plural hidrocefalias)
- (pathology) hydrocephalus
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