impairment of the functioning of the brain due to injury or disease.
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders (23) brain damage1864 impairment of the functioning of the brain due to injury or disease. mind-blindness1888 Medicine. The inability to recognize objects by sight, caused by lesions of certain parts of the cerebral cortex; visual agnosia. Also called psychi… satellitosis1906 Pathology. A condition characterized by the presence of an increased number of neuroglial or satellite cells surrounding neurons, esp. in the… syringobulbia1908 the formation of abnormal cavities in the medulla oblongata of the brain (usually extensions of those of syringomyelia), resulting in symptoms… Alzheimer's disease1911 a common form of dementia (progressive mental deterioration) typically beginning in late middle age, characterized clinically by memory loss… kernicterus1912 The staining of nuclei of the brain cells with bilirubin, which sometimes occurs, usually associated with rhesus incompatibility, in neonatal… pseudotumour1914 More fully pseudotumour cerebri. A syndrome characterized by increased intracranial pressure occurring in the absence of an intracranial mass or… brain death1928 (a) a death caused by disease of the brain (rare); (b) death of brain cells or tissue; (now usually) irreversible damage to the brain and… punch-drunk1928 Medicine. The punch-drunk syndrome. Now rare. Sturge–Weber syndrome1935 Sturge–Weber syndromeor disease: a congenital syndrome in which a diffuse malformation of blood vessels on one side of the head produces port-wine… Alzheimer1938 In the genitive, used absol. = Alzheimer's disease n. Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939 Used attributively and in the possessive, usually in Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, to designate a communicable progressive disease of the human brain… Alzheimer1940 = Alzheimer's disease n. rare. Schilder's disease1940 A disease characterized by degeneration of the neurones of the brain, esp. in the occipitotemporal lobes, leading to blindness, deafness, and death. hypsarrhythmia1952 Severely abnormal brain activity characterized by recurrent irregular spikes and slow waves in the electroencephalogram, which is usually… kuru1957 A progressive and fatal degenerative disease of the brain which is endemic in an area of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea and is characterized… laughing death1957 = kuru, n. Minamata disease1957 A form of encephalopathy producing sensory loss in the extremities, ataxia, loss of sight and hearing, dysarthria, and other symptoms (and in the… myelinolysis1959 Dissolution or destruction of the myelin sheath of nerve fibres; spec. demyelination of the pons or other areas of the brain, typically associated… spongiform encephalopathy1960 any of various degenerative diseases of the central nervous system characterized by histological change in brain tissue, which assumes a sponge-like… CJD1975 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. old-timer's disease1983 = Alzheimer's disease n. at Alzheimer, n. 1. mad —— disease1990 (a) humorous (in ad hoc uses), an imaginary affliction of a specified animal, person, etc., esp. one causing unusual or erratic behaviour; (b) collo… |
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