brain edema

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

   Synonymscerebral edema

   Broaderedema

Questions about brain edema

What does brain edema mean?

brain edema means "swelling of the brain due to the uptake of water in the neuropile and white matter".

What is another word for brain edema?

Close synonyms include cerebral edema. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brain edema a common word?

brain edema is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.