hydrocephalus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλον (hudroképhalon).

Noun

hydrocephalus (usually uncountable, plural hydrocephaluses)

1. (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
• 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), 腦水腫／脑水肿 (nou⁵ seoi² zung²), 水腦症／水脑症 (seoi² nou⁵ zing³)

  Mandarin: 腦積水／脑积水 (zh) (nǎojīshuǐ), 脑积水 (zh) (nǎojīshuǐ), 腦水腫／脑水肿 (zh) (nǎoshuǐzhǒng), 脑水肿 (zh) (nǎoshuǐzhǒng), 水腦症／水脑症 (shuǐnǎozhèng), 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)
• Hebrew: הִידְרוֹצֶפָלוּס (he) f (hidrotsefalus)
• Hindi: जलशीर्ष (jalśīrṣ)
• Icelandic: vatnshöfuð n
• Ido: hidrocefaleso (io)
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• 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
• Oriya: ହାଇଡ୍ରୋସେଫାଲସ (hāiḍrosephālasa)
• Polish: hydrocefalia f, wodogłowie (pl) n, wodomózgowie n
• 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)