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DERENCEPHALOCELE

\dˈɛɹɪnsˌɛfɐlˌə͡ʊsə͡l], \dˈɛɹɪnsˌɛfɐlˌə‍ʊsə‍l], \d_ˈɛ_ɹ_ɪ_n_s_ˌɛ_f_ɐ_l_ˌəʊ_s_əl]\

Definitions of DERENCEPHALOCELE

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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A monstrosity in which the cranium is defective and the very small brain is contained, and partly extrudes through a defect, in the upper cervical spinal canal.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Protrusion of brain-substance through a slit in one of the cervical vertebrae.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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