ENCEPHALOCELE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 15

(Gr. iyxi(px\os, the brain, anA. Ki^Xvi, a tumour.) Hernia of the brain. There are two kinds of this disease: one occurs in young infants, before the skull is completely o ified; the other presents itself after the destruction of a part of the skull in consequence of disease, accident, or the operation of the trepan. [s. 408]