What Does Cerebropathy Mean?

(1) A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly strained. (2) An older, nonspecific term for any pathology of the brain. Cerebropathy is not used in the working medical parlance, replaced by brain disease.

What does Craniocele mean?

[en-sef´ah-lo-sēl″] hernial protrusion of brain substance and meninges through a congenital or traumatic opening of the skull.

What does Pathy mean in medical terms?

pathy: A suffix derived from the Greek "pathos" meaning "suffering or disease" that serves as a suffix in many terms including myopathy (muscle disease), neuropathy (nerve disease), retinopathopathy (disease of the retina), sympathy (literally, suffering together), etc.

Marcus Vance

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