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cerebral edema

NOUN
  1. swelling of the brain due to the uptake of water in the neuropile and white matter

How To Use cerebral edema In A Sentence

  • A second computed tomographic scan showed effacement of the temporal sulci and gyri, which was believed to be secondary to cerebral edema.
  • When you get High Altitude Sickness, if you don't go back down a thousand or two thousand feet, and rest until your body acclimates to that altitude, High Altitude Sickness turns into one of two things: either it goes into your lungs and turns into pulmonary edema or into your brain as cerebral edema where your brain swells, both of which can be fatal. Gary Stein: Craig Kiser's Blind Ambition to Benefit Thousands in Need
  • Patients often have nystagmus, ataxia, and in severe poisonings, cerebral edema.
  • One risk is that the cerebral edema induced by the hypo-osmolality is clearly a bad thing and should not be allowed to persist and worsen and on the other hand there is the somewhat mysterious spectre of osmotic demyelination which is typically referred to by one of it forms namely central pontine myelinolysis. Archive 2007-05-01
  • Patricia C. Gregory-Lynch, 45, an assistant professor in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine since 2005, died June 13 at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, N.C., of a cerebral edema, or swelling in the brain. Patricia C. Gregory-Lynch; Reuben R. Levine; Suzanne S. Jacobsen; John J. 'Jack' Hughes
  • Objective: To investigate the treatment of severe head injure with diffuse cerebral edema and rapid encephalocele during operation.
  • One risk is that the cerebral edema induced by the hypo-osmolality is clearly a bad thing and should not be allowed to persist and worsen and on the other hand there is the somewhat mysterious spectre of osmotic demyelination which is typically referred to by one of it forms namely central pontine myelinolysis. SIADH or SIAD-where did the "h" go and does it matter?
  • I once watched a Gamow bag quite dramatically save the life of a trekker with cerebral edema.
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