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The word hydrocephalus is from the Greek ὕδωρ, hydōr meaning 'water' and κεφαλή, kephalē meaning 'head'. [7] Other names for hydrocephalus include "water on the brain", a historical name, and "water baby syndrome". [1] [54]
Tubes filled with amniotic fluid for amniocentesis. The amniotic fluid is the protective liquid contained by the amniotic sac of a gravid amniote.This fluid serves as a cushion for the growing fetus, but also serves to facilitate the exchange of nutrients, water, and biochemical products between mother and fetus.
Cerebral edema is commonly seen in a variety of brain injuries including ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, subdural, epidural, or intracerebral hematoma, hydrocephalus, brain cancer, brain infections, low blood sodium levels, high altitude, and acute liver failure.
An Oregon baby underwent surgery to remove half of his brain due to a rare disorder and seizures. Jackson Williamson was just 3 months old when he started suffering seizures.
You keep losing your train of thought mid-sentence…and your car keys. Yep, we’ve all heard of mom brain —and if you’re a new or expecting...
Diving reflex in a human baby. The diving reflex, also known as the diving response and mammalian diving reflex, is a set of physiological responses to immersion that overrides the basic homeostatic reflexes, and is found in all air-breathing vertebrates studied to date.
After welcoming her son Caper in November 2023, Andalusia Mesa couldn't wait to meet her baby boy and hold him in her arms. But her joy quickly turned to concern when, through the haze of her pain ...
Father with baby getting used to a swimming pool Baby submerged, instinctively holding his breath underwater.. Infant swimming is the phenomenon of human babies and toddlers reflexively moving themselves through water and changing their rate of respiration and heart rate in response to being submerged.