ventriculitis

plural ventriculitides

1. countableuncountablemedicineInflammation of the ventricles in the brain.

   Complications of intraventricular administration include shunt infections with S. epidermidis, shunt occlusions, ventriculitides, encephalopathies, and seizures.

   2003, Thomas Brandt, Neurological Disorders: Course and Treatment, page 618

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   Ventriculitis in the newborn may be associated with a depressed anterior fontanelle if the infant is dehydrated and it may be full and/or boggy rather than tense and may not become bulging until the very late stages of the disease.

   1991, Robert Anthony Minns, Problems of Intracranial Pressure in Childhood, page 198