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Meningocele

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue)

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Meningoceles
possessive
Meningocele's
pluralpossessive
Meningoceles'