hydrocephalus
disorder characterized by an abnormal increase of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain
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Summary
hydrocephalus is a rare disease[1]. hydrocephalus ranks in the top 2% of rare disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31,553 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[3], symptom or sign[4]
- Subclass of: cerebral degeneration[5], intracranial hypertension[6], head symptom[7]
- Commons category: Hydrocephalus[8]
- ICPC 2 ID: N85[9]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[11], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C3111[15]
- Different from: hypocephalus[16], cerebral edema[17], Hydrocephalus[18]
- Health specialty: medical genetics[19], neurology[20]
- Genetic association: MPDZ[21], CCDC88C[22]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10908[23], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10908[24], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000051[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[26], WikiProject Medicine[27]
Why It Matters
hydrocephalus has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] hydrocephalus is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]