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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλον (hudroképhalon).
Noun
hydrocephalus (usually uncountable, plural hydrocephaluses or hydrocephali)
- (medicine) 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.
2025 January 25, Hanna Ziady, “‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’”, in CNN:She was born with a condition known as hydrocephalus, which doctors said was caused by a listeriosis infection that her mother contracted while pregnant.
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skull enlargement due to fluid
- Arabic: مواه الرأس
- Armenian: հիդրոցեֆալիա (hy) (hidrocʻefalia)
- Azerbaijani: hidrosefal
- Basque: hidrozefalia
- Belarusian: гідрацэфалія f (hidracefalija)
- Catalan: hidrocefàlia f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 腦積水 / 脑积水 (nou5 zik1 seoi2), 水腦症 / 水脑症 (seoi2 nou5 zing3)
- Mandarin: 腦積水 / 脑积水 (zh) (nǎojīshuǐ), 水腦症 / 水脑症 (shuǐnǎozhèng)
- Czech: hydrocefalus m
- Dutch: hydrocefalus m, waterhoofd (nl) n
- Finnish: hydrokefalia
- French: hydrocéphalie (fr) f
- Georgian: ჰიდროცეფალია (hidrocepalia)
- German: Hydrocephalus m, Hydrozephalus m, Wasserkopf (de) m
- Greek: υδροκεφαλία (el) f (ydrokefalía)
- Ancient: ὑδροκέφαλον n (hudroképhalon)
- Hebrew: הִידְרוֹצֶפָלוּס (he) f (hidrotsefalus)
- Hindi: जलशीर्ष (jalśīrṣ)
- Icelandic: vatnshöfuð n
- Ido: hidrocefaleso (io)
- Indonesian: hidrosefalus
- Irish: hiodracafalas m
- Italian: idrocefalo m, idrocefalia f
- Japanese: 水頭症 (すいとうしょう, suitōshō)
- Kannada: ಜಲಮಸ್ತಿಷ್ಕ ರೋಗ (kn) (jalamastiṣka rōga)
- Kazakh: ми шемені (mi şemenı), гидроцефалия (gidrosefaliä)
- Korean: 수두증 (sudujeung)
- Kyrgyz: гидроцефалия (gidrotsefaliya)
- Latvian: hidrocefālija f
- Lithuanian: hidrocefalija f, vandenė f
- Odia: ହାଇଡ୍ରୋସେଫାଲସ (hāiḍrosephālasa)
- Polish: wodogłowie (pl) n, wodomózgowie n, hydrocefalia f
- Portuguese: hidrocefalia f
- Romanian: hidrocefalie (ro) f
- Russian: гидроцефа́лия (ru) f (gidrocefálija), водя́нка головно́го мо́зга f (vodjánka golovnóvo mózga)
- Slovak: hydrocefália f
- Spanish: hidrocefalia f
- Swedish: vattenskalle (sv) c, hydrocefalus (sv) c
- Thai: ภาวะโพรงสมองคั่งน้ำ (paa-wá prohng sà-mŏng-kâng náam)
- Turkish: hidrosefali (tr)
- Ukrainian: гідроцефалія f (hidrocefalija)
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