How to Use hydrocephalus in a Sentence

hydrocephalus

noun

• The surgery was the first of its kind to treat hydrocephalus in fur seals.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 2 Jan. 2018
• On the third day, the doctor called him with good news: Jason did not have hydrocephalus.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• Scott was born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain).
  — Priority Health, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
• The film follows a child with hydrocephalus who gets a life-changing surgery.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• The parents revealed that the 6-year-old had autism, epilepsy and hydrocephalus.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• At six months, she was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the brain.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2021
• Soon, 7-year-old Hayden Dawes, who has hydrocephalus and has been in the hospital for a week to replace a shunt, appears on the screen.
  — Washington Post, 15 May 2021
• Twenty-five years ago my first son, Jacob, was born with hydrocephalus, or water on the brain.
  — Carol Glazer, Redbook, 3 Nov. 2017
• Might it have been caused by hydrocephalus or some other disease?
  — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• Twenty years ago, their year-and-a-half-old daughter was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, or fluid on the brain.
  — Tommy Tomlinson, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
• Sharpe's life was turned sideways on Friday, Aug. 25, when his son Jacob was born with hydrocephalus.
  — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2017
• One father had traveled from Honduras with his 6-year-old child who had hydrocephalus.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 6 July 2018
• MyLynn, 19, is on the autism spectrum, has mild cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus from excess fluid in the brain.
  — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2019
• Her son Ron McBay said the cause was diabetes and normal pressure hydrocephalus, a form of dementia.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• Then the tiny baby had surgery to place a shunt in his brain to drain excess fluid associated with his hydrocephalus.
  — Liv Osby, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• The couple was then told their son was born with hydrocephalus, which causes extra fluid on the brain, but that his brain tissue had developed.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2018
• In Zen’s case, this hydrocephalus was due to a malignant brain tumor, Cannon explained.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 8 Dec. 2021
• In addition, babies with this form of spina bifida often need a shunt to drain off excess fluid in the brain, called hydrocephalus.
  — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 23 June 2017
• In rural India, a child with hydrocephalus gets a chance at life-changing surgery after her photos go viral.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• He was born with hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess fluids build up in the brain, and has undergone more than 50 surgeries throughout his life.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Soon after she was born, however, Millie was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a build up of fluid around the brain, and was scheduled for surgery.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Redbook, 9 Apr. 2017
• In a disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus (N.P.H.), the cells that absorb excess fluid stop working well, and the fluid can compress and injure the brain.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Johnson said her son, who had a brain condition called congenital hydrocephalus, had worked at Walmart for more than 10 years.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
• Van Brusselen learned just a month before her due date that her baby had hydrocephalus, or an accumulation of fluid in the brain.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2020
• Jeremy Keyser, 15, was born with hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
  — Olga Yakovleva special To The Miami Herald, miamiherald, 30 June 2017
• After his broken back, there was a series of splintering falls, a terrible car accident, a shunt for hydrocephalus, and two kinds of cancer.
  — Ann Patchett, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• In addition to her facial symptoms, Laura’s brain was swollen with fluid at birth, a condition known as hydrocephalus.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2021
• Andrew, who was born with hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess fluids build up in the brain, passed away on July 1 — just days after his 14th birthday — following months of painful hospice care.
  — Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2022
• Recently, Chae was working on developing high-tech brain implants to ease the effects of hydrocephalus, according to the statement.
  — Audrey Jensen, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2020
• Campos’ third child, a daughter, was diagnosed with fetal congenital hydrocephalus, a condition that causes cerebrospinal fluid to build up in the brain’s ventricles.
  — Palabra, al, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024