MENINGOCELE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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)

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("meningocele" is a kind of...):

birth defect; congenital abnormality; congenital anomaly; congenital defect; congenital disorder (a defect that is present at birth)

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