Usually means: Excessive cerebrospinal fluid in brain.
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  1. hydrocephalus: Merriam-Webster
  2. hydrocephalus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hydrocephalus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hydrocephalus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hydrocephalus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hydrocephalus, hydrocephalus: Wordnik
  7. hydrocephalus: Wiktionary
  8. hydrocephalus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hydrocephalus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hydrocephalus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hydrocephalus: Dictionary.com
  12. Hydrocephalus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hydrocephalus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hydrocephalus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hydrocephalus: Rhymezone
  16. Hydrocephalus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hydrocephalus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. hydrocephalus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. hydrocephalus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hydrocephalus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hydrocephalus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hydrocephalus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hydrocephalus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  7. Hydrocephalus: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  11. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  12. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  13. Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology (No longer online)
  14. Hydrocephalus: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  15. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  16. hydrocephalus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  17. Disorder Index (No longer online)
  18. hydrocephalus: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  19. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  20. hydrocephalus: Medical dictionary
  21. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  22. Hydrocephalus: Brain Injury
  23. Hydrocephalus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  24. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hydrocephalus, Hydrocephalus, Hydrocephalus: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hydrocephalus: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hydrocephalus)

noun:  (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

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