Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or exhibiting hydrocephalus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.
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- adjective
hydrocephalous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characterized by or evidencing hydrocephalus
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Examples
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With this in mind, early delivery and shunting may be performed after 32 weeks for the rapidly progressive hydrocephalic fetus with documented lung maturity.
Hydrocephalus 2010
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And such a large cavernous storehouse of opiate treasure the yapping hearing impaired squirrel has lucked upon in with that echo filled hydrocephalic skull of its.
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For at its core, Super Tiny Animals was an out-and-out freak show; only it wasn't the cats with next to no legs, the dwarf horses – yes, horses can get dwarfism – the barely-visible marmosets or the borderline hydrocephalic dogs that were the freaks.
TV review: Super Tiny Animals; Bobby Fischer: Genius and Madman 2011
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And such a large cavernous storehouse of opiate treasure the yapping hearing impaired squirrel has lucked upon in with that echo filled hydrocephalic skull of its.
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I haven't made up my mind how much I should care that the main character in the Alexie book is hydrocephalic, has weird teeth, stutters, and has been a social outcast for years and then, surprise, not only becomes a star basketball player (after not showing any earlier signs of prowess on the court) but also gets the girl (even if in a modulated way).
The Winners Roger Sutton 2008
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There lay Gussie sleeping peacefully, and with an expression on his face that for sheer guilelessness would have done credit to a hydrocephalic idiot.
Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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I've been paging through my copy of the Qur'an, a handsome if musty volume translated into Latin in 1143 by Robert of Ketton (he even signed this copy to "Gertrudis," adding good wishes: "Subsisto ut dulcis ut vos es," or, "Stay as sweet as you are") in search of inspiring passages which, with the right terrorist muscle behind them, could forever rid our airwaves of hydrocephalic dreck, and herewith share my findings.
David Kronke: TV Shows Islamic Extremists Should Be Attacking Rather Than "South Park" 2010
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There lay Gussie sleeping peacefully, and with an expression on his face that for sheer guilelessness would have done credit to a hydrocephalic idiot.
"A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010
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But speaking of monsters, del Toro says of Hello Kitty, whom his daughter prefers, "I still think [it's] a hydrocephalic mutant of a cat."
Take a Look Inside Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II Diary « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Absurd, of course, because the world of “hydrocephalic idiots” who could only say “guay, guay” was as unreal to a bunch of nineteen-year-old college students as the grotesque characters in the play were.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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