Wasserkopf

German

Etymology

From Wasser (water) + Kopf (head), calque of Latin hydrocephalus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wasserkopf m (genitive Wasserkopfes or Wasserkopfs, plural Wasserköpfe)

  1. hydrocephalus
    • 1810, John Cheyne, Versuch über den akuten Wasserkopf oder die Wassersucht im Gehirn, tr. by Adolph Müller, publ. by Aloys Doll, 1.
      Der akute Wafferkopf *), die Krankheit, welche in den folgenden Seiten der Gegenstand näherer Beleuchtung ist, kommt hauptsächlich in der Kindheit vor.
      Acute hydrocephalus, the illness that is the object of further elucidation in the following pages, mainly occurs in childhood.

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