hydrocephalus

disorder characterized by an abnormal increase of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain
MedicalCondition rare_disease Q193003
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hydrocephalus

Summary

hydrocephalus is a rare disease[1]. hydrocephalus ranks in the top 2% of rare_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (156,648 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • hydrocephalus's instance of is recorded as rare disease[3].
  • hydrocephalus's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • hydrocephalus's instance of is recorded as symptom or sign[5].
  • hydrocephalus is a type of cerebral degeneration[6].
  • hydrocephalus is a type of intracranial hypertension[7].
  • hydrocephalus is a type of head symptom[8].
  • hydrocephalus's Commons category is recorded as Hydrocephalus[9].
  • hydrocephalus's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as N85[10].
  • hydrocephalus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • hydrocephalus's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[12].
  • hydrocephalus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • hydrocephalus's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[14].
  • hydrocephalus's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • hydrocephalus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • hydrocephalus's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C3111[17].
  • hydrocephalus's different from is recorded as hypocephalus[18].
  • hydrocephalus's different from is recorded as cerebral edema[19].
  • hydrocephalus's different from is recorded as Hydrocephalus[20].
  • hydrocephalus's health specialty is recorded as medical genetics[21].
  • hydrocephalus's health specialty is recorded as neurology[22].
  • hydrocephalus's genetic association is recorded as MPDZ[23].
  • hydrocephalus's genetic association is recorded as CCDC88C[24].
  • hydrocephalus's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10908[25].
  • hydrocephalus's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10908[26].
  • hydrocephalus's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000051[27].

Why It Matters

hydrocephalus ranks in the top 2% of rare_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (156,648 views/month).[2] hydrocephalus has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] hydrocephalus is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · Carbonaro. · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Hydrocephalic skull.jpg, Hydrocephalus (cropped).jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Hydrocephalus_(cropped).jpg"
  2. 6w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subreddit → Hydrocephalus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3984]]: Hydrocephalus, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/144660376|Hydrocephalus (#144660376)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5569|Subreddit Di"
  3. 13w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → cerebral degeneration, intracranial hypertension, head symptom
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947) +3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 15w ago · Schekinov Alexey Victorovich · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947) +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q19180675]]"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0222489-hydrocefalus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0222489-hydrocefalus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  6. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → cerebral degeneration, intracranial hypertension, head symptom
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → rare disease, class of disease, symptom or sign
    Health specialty → medical genetics, neurology
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 17426, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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