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BRAIN DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any disorder or disease of the brain
Synonyms:
brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("brain disease" is a kind of...):
nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder (a disorder of the nervous system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brain disease"):
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)
