cerebral edema

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbrain edema

   Broaderedema

Questions about cerebral edema

What does cerebral edema mean?

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

What is another word for cerebral edema?

Close synonyms include brain 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 cerebral edema a common word?

cerebral 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.