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hydrocephalic, a. and n.|ˌhaɪdrəʊsɪˈfælɪk|
[f. hydrocephal-us + -ic.]
A. adj. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hydrocephalus; affected with hydrocephalus; hence transf. big-headed.
1815Edin. Rev. XXV. 262 Hydrocephalic patients. 1833–58Copland Dict. Pract. Med. (L.), Liable to hydrocephalic and convulsive diseases. 1860All Year Round No. 38. 283 With..enormous head and hydrocephalic prominency of brain.
B. n. A person affected with hydrocephalus.
1908A. F. Tredgold Mental Deficiency (caption to Plate xix), Male hydrocephalic. 1930D. Paterson Sick Children xii. 331 Fifty per cent. of all hydrocephalics suffer from convulsions. 1971Nature 17 Sept. 171/1 Medicine is keeping alive idiots, hydrocephalics and cases of spina bifida. |