hydrocephaloid

[ hahy-druh-sef-uh-loid ]

adjective

, Pathology.

1. resembling hydrocephalus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hydrocephaloid¹

First recorded in 1835–45; hydrocephal(us) + -oid

Example Sentences

Others thought the picture looked like a vast translucent cranium containing a number of babies enveloped in autumn leaves, some of the children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating.

From Time Magazine Archive

He walked among the lame and the blind, past hydrocephaloid and microcephalous idiots, past a juggler who kept twelve flaming torches in the air with the aid of a rudimentary third hand growing out of his chest.

From Project Gutenberg