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encephalopathy

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for encephalopathy.

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I wondered how widespread encephalopathy was amongst football players and wound up on this[0] wikipedia page regarding the list of players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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Quick take

(pathology, neurology) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(pathology, neurology) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for encephalopathy.

noun

(pathology, neurology) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.

Example sentences

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I wondered how widespread encephalopathy was amongst football players and wound up on this[0] wikipedia page regarding the list of players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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There's a risk of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)[1] in rugby, box and other sports where your head is hit.

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He'll regret it when he can't do math after he retires because of the encephalopathy he gets from repeated head trauma.

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Depending when the person was travelling: some nations banned bovine insulin originating from some other nations over fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

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CBD bears investigation in epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction, and neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

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Other failure modes include hepatic encephalopathy caused by cirrhosis and alcohol-related dementia, which includes but isn't limited to the consequences of B1 deficiency.

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A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of repeated IV antibiotic therapy for Lyme encephalopathy.

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It's not okay to eat people because cannibal populations develop spongiform encephalopathy.

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It's kind of worse with alcohol because the psychosis associated with that as an exacerbating factor is more related to alcoholic encephalopathy, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome etc...

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He suffers from hepatic encephalopathy secondary to hepatitic C infection.

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Also, a paper[1] I found via wikipedia references estimated an encephalopathy prevalence rate of 3.7% (and that's a conservative estimate according to wikipedia).

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Cory Doctorow has a word for the California Ideology Republican bovine spongiform encephalopathy that's swept the nation: I think he calls it enfecesification...?

Quote examples

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Further down the non-life infectious agent chain are prion diseases such as Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow" disease in cattle, "Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease", amongst others).

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NPH has one of my favorite mnemonic in medicine for students learning about the condition, describing the hallmark symptoms as: "Wet, Wobbly and Wacky." Wet referring to urinary incontinence, Wobbly referring to ataxia/balance issues and Wacky referring to encephalopathy (which could mimic dementia symptoms).

Proper noun examples

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Encephalopathy has been reported after MMR vaccination at a rate of less than 1 per 1 000 000 doses administered.

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Bismuth Encephalopathy- A Rare Complication of Long-Standing Use of Bismuth Subsalicylate.

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Perhaps Gemini has Clanker Autocoprophagic Encephalopathy.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use encephalopathy in a sentence?

I wondered how widespread encephalopathy was amongst football players and wound up on this[0] wikipedia page regarding the list of players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

What does encephalopathy mean?

(pathology, neurology) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.

What part of speech is encephalopathy?

encephalopathy is commonly used as noun.