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encephalopathyenUK
en·ceph·a·lop·a·thy E0125400 (ĕn-sĕf′ə-lŏp′ə-thē)n. pl. en·ceph·a·lop·a·thies Any of various diseases of the brain.
en·ceph′a·lo·path′ic (-lə-păth′ĭk) adj.encephalopathy (ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθɪ) n (Pathology) any degenerative disease of the brain, often associated with toxic conditions. See also BSEen•ceph•a•lop•a•thy (ɛnˌsɛf əˈlɒp ə θi)
n., pl. -thies. any disease of the brain. [1865–70] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  encephalopathy - any disorder or disease of the brainbrain disease, brain disordernervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder - a disorder of the nervous systemepilepsy - a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsionsapraxia - inability to make purposeful movementsparalysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, shaking palsy - a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordinationcerebral palsy, spastic paralysis - a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birthagraphia, anorthography, logagraphia - a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesionacataphasia - 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 manneraphasia - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesionagnosia - inability to recognize objects by use of the sensesCJD, 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 controlReye'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 liverWernicke's encephalopathy - inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism |
TranslationsSee Encephalopathy
EncephalopathyenUK
encephalopathy[en‚sef·ə′läp·ə·thē] (medicine) Any disease of the brain. Encephalopathy a collective term that designates a noninflammatory organic disease of the brain. Some encephalopathies are innate, resulting from embryopathy. Others are the result of infection, poisoning, trauma, or vascular disease of the brain. There are no specific manifestations. The most common encephalopathies resemble neuroses (asthenia, irritability, insomnia, headaches) or psychoses (narrowed scope of interests, passivity, emotional instability, vulgarity). Symptoms may include memory loss or mental deterioration. Alcoholic encephalopathies are alcoholic psychoses. They may be acute, as in Wernicke’s encephalopathy (named for the German neuropathologist C. Wernicke, who described the condition in 1881), or chronic, as in Korsakov’s psychosis (named for S. S. Korsakov) and alcoholic pseudoparalysis. Lead encephalopathy is caused by chronic poisoning by lead salts. Treatment for encephalopathies depends on the cause of the disease. encephalopathyenUK
encephalopathy [en-sef″ah-lop´ah-the] any degenerative disease of the brain.AIDS encephalopathy HIV encephalopathy.anoxic encephalopathy hypoxic encephalopathy.biliary encephalopathy (bilirubin encephalopathy) kernicterus.bovine spongiform encephalopathy a prion disease of adult cattle in the British Isles with neurologic symptoms. It is transmitted by feed containing protein in the form of meat and bone meal derived from infected animals. The etiologic agent is also the cause of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Called also mad cow disease.boxer's encephalopathy (boxer's traumatic encephalopathy) a syndrome due to cumulative head blows absorbed in the boxing ring, characterized by slowing of mental function, occasional bouts of confusion, and scattered memory loss. It may progress to the more serious boxer's dementia. See also postconcussional syndrome.dialysis encephalopathy a degenerative disease of the brain associated with longterm use of hemodialysis, marked by speech disorders and constant myoclonic jerks, progressing to global dementia.hepatic encephalopathy a condition, usually occurring secondary to advanced liver disease, marked by disturbances of consciousness that may progress to deep coma (hepatic coma), psychiatric changes of varying degree, flapping tremor, and fetor hepaticus.HIV encephalopathy (HIV-related encephalopathy) a progressive primary encephalopathy caused by infection with virus" >human immunodeficiency virus type I, manifested by a variety of cognitive, motor, and behavioral abnormalities. Called also AIDS encephalopathy.hypernatremic encephalopathy a severe hemorrhagic encephalopathy induced by the hyperosmolarity accompanying hypernatremia and dehydration.hypertensive encephalopathy a complex of cerebral phenomena such as headache, convulsions, and coma that occur in the course of malignant hypertension.hypoxic encephalopathy encephalopathy caused by hypoxia from either decreased rate of blood flow or decreased oxygen content of arterial blood; mild cases cause temporary intellectual, visual, and motor disturbances, and severe cases can cause permanent brain damage within five minutes. Called also anoxic encephalopathy.lead encephalopathy brain disease caused by lead poisoning.mitochondrial encephalopathy encephalopathy associated with mitochondrial abnormalities, such as melas syndrome" >melas syndrome and merrf syndrome" >merrf syndrome.portal-systemic encephalopathy (portasystemic encephalopathy) hepatic encephalopathy.progressive subcortical encephalopathy Schilder's disease.subacute spongiform encephalopathy (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy) prion disease.traumatic encephalopathy 1. boxer's encephalopathy.2. postconcussional syndrome.Wernicke's encephalopathy a neurological disorder characterized by confusion, apathy, drowsiness, ataxia of gait, nystagmus, and ophthalmoplegia; it is due to thiamine deficiency, usually from chronic alcohol abuse. It is almost invariably accompanied by or followed by korsakoff's syndrome and frequently accompanied by other nutritional polyneuropathies. See also wernicke-korsakoff syndrome.en·ceph·a·lop·a·thy (en-sef'ă-lop'ă-thē), Any disorder of the brain. Synonym(s): cerebropathia, cerebropathy, cerebropathy, encephalopathia, encephalosis [encephalo- + G. pathos, suffering] encephalopathy (ĕn-sĕf′ə-lŏp′ə-thē)n. pl. encephalopa·thies Any of various diseases of the brain.
en·ceph′a·lo·path′ic (-lə-păth′ĭk) adj.encephalopathy Neurology A metabolic, toxic, neoplastic, or degenerative disease of the brain. See Alcoholic encephalopathy, Bismuth encephalopathy, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Boxers' encephalopathy, Hepatic encephalopathy. en·ceph·a·lop·a·thy (en-sefă-lopă-thē) 1. Any disorder of the brain. 2. A disorder of the brain parenchyma, as distinct from a disorder of the meninges.
Synonym(s): cephalopathy, cerebropathy, encephalosis. [encephalo- + G. pathos, suffering, disease]encephalopathy Any degenerative or other non-inflammatory disorder affecting the brain in a widespread manner.EncephalopathyA dysfunction of the brain. Hepatic encephalopathy is brain dysfunction that occurs because the liver isn't removing harmful substances from the blood.Mentioned in: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Delirium, Liver Encephalopathy, Movement Disorders, Whooping Coughen·ceph·a·lop·a·thy , encephalopathia (en-sefă-lopă-thē, -lō-pathē-ă) Any disorder of the brain. FinancialSeeBSEencephalopathy Related to encephalopathy: hepatic encephalopathy, alcoholic encephalopathy, metabolic encephalopathy
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encephalopathyenUK
Related to encephalopathy: hepatic encephalopathy, alcoholic encephalopathy, metabolic encephalopathySynonyms for encephalopathynoun any disorder or disease of the brainSynonyms- brain disease
- brain disorder
Related Words- nervous disorder
- neurological disease
- neurological disorder
- epilepsy
- apraxia
- paralysis agitans
- Parkinsonism
- Parkinson's
- Parkinson's disease
- Parkinson's syndrome
- shaking palsy
- cerebral palsy
- spastic paralysis
- agraphia
- anorthography
- logagraphia
- acataphasia
- aphasia
- agnosia
- CJD
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
- Reye's syndrome
- Wernicke's encephalopathy
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