Dictionary entry

Hydrocephaloid

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hy′dro‐ceph″a‐loid (?), a. [Hydrocephalus + -oid.] (Med.) Resembling hydrocephalus.

Hydrocephaloid affection(Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.