hidrocéfalo

• Hyphenation: hi‧dro‧cé‧fa‧lo

hidrocéfalo (feminine hidrocéfala, masculine plural hidrocéfalos, feminine plural hidrocéfalas)

1. (medicine) hydrocephalous (afflicted with hydrocephalus)

   Synonym: hidrocefálico

• “hidrocéfalo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “hidrocéfalo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλος (hudroképhalos), from ὑδρο- (hudro-, “water”) and κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

• IPA^(key): /idɾoˈθefalo/ [i.ð̞ɾoˈθe.fa.lo] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /idɾoˈsefalo/ [i.ð̞ɾoˈse.fa.lo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -efalo
• Syllabification: hi‧dro‧cé‧fa‧lo

hidrocéfalo (feminine hidrocéfala, masculine plural hidrocéfalos, feminine plural hidrocéfalas)

1. (medicine) hydrocephalous (afflicted with hydrocephalia)

hidrocéfalo m (plural hidrocéfalos)

1. (medicine, dated) hydrocephalus

   Synonym: hidrocefalia

• “hidrocéfalo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025