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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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— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... preserve, often by means of all the resources of medical science, miserable creatures, born as cretins or idiots; children with hydrocephalus or microcephalus, without eyes or ears, or with atrophied genital organs, etc., is an atrocity sanctioned by the law. Would it not be better to allow these miserable beings to be suppressed by means ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel



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



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