encephalopathy

Noun
  1. Any disorder or disease of the brain (synset 114109190)
    is a type of: nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder - a disorder of the nervous system
    subtypes:
    • epilepsy - a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions
    • apraxia - inability to make purposeful movements
    • paralysis agitans, parkinson's, parkinson's disease, parkinson's syndrome, parkinsonism, shaking palsy - a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination
    • cerebral palsy, spastic paralysis - a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth
    • agraphia, anorthography, logagraphia - a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion
    • acataphasia - a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner
    • aphasia - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
    • agnosia - inability to recognize objects by use of the senses
    • cjd, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, jakob-creutzfeldt disease - rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
    • reye's syndrome - acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver
    • wernicke's encephalopathy - inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism
    same as: brain disease, brain disorder

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