hydrocephalus

English

Etymology

Noun

hydrocephalus (usually uncountable, plural hydrocephaluses)

(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

Synonyms

water on the brain (informal)

Translations

skull enlargement due to fluid

Arabic: مواه الرأس‎
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腦積水 (zh), 脑积水 (zh) (nǎojīshuǐ), 腦水腫 (zh), 脑水肿 (zh) (nǎoshuǐzhǒng), 水腦症, 水脑症 (shuǐnǎozhèng)
Czech: hydrocefalus m
Finnish: hydrokefalia
French: hydrocéphalie (fr) f
German: Hydrocephalus m, Hydrozephalus m, Wasserkopf (de) m
Icelandic: vatnshöfuð n

Japanese: 水頭症 (すいとうしょう, suitōshō)
Kazakh: ми шемені (mï şemeni)
Polish: hydrocefalia f, wodogłowie (pl) n, wodomózgowie n
Portuguese: hidrocefalia f
Russian: гидроцефа́лия (ru) f (gidrocefálija), водя́нка головно́го мо́зга f (vodjánka golovnóvo mózga)
Spanish: hidrocefalia f
Swedish: vattenskalle (sv), hydrocefalus (sv)

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