encephalocele

Noun

Meaning

Hernia of the brain.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

anencephaly cerebral palsy acrania brain disorder iniencephaly arachnoid cyst Chiari malformation colpocephaly Arnold-Chiari malformation craniocele brain malformation agenesis of the corpus callosum cobblestone lissencephaly birth defects of the spinal cord caudal regression syndrome
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Hypernyms

birth defect congenital disorder congenital abnormality congenital anomaly congenital defect

Examples

She said: "There's not enough awareness of it or not enough details about what it is, so I found a forum on Facebook of parents all over the world who had Encephalocele. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

encephalize encephalized encephalo- encephaloclastic encephaloclastic microcephaly encephaloclastic porencephaly