English > brain disease: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | Any disorder or disease of the brain. |
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| Synonyms | brain disorder, encephalopathy |
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| Narrower | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease | Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus |
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| Reye's syndrome | acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children |
| Wernicke's encephalopathy | inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism |
| 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 |
| agnosia | inability to recognize objects by use of the senses |
| agraphia, anorthography, logagraphia | A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion |
| aphasia | inability to use or understand language / language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion |
| apraxia | inability to make purposeful movements |
| cerebral palsy, spastic paralysis | A loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth / birth |
| epilepsy | A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions |
| paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinson's, shaking palsy | A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination |
| Broader | nervous disorder, neurological disorder, neurological disease | A disorder of the nervous system |
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| Spanish | encefalopatía, enfermedad cerebral, trastorno cerebral |
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| Catalan | encefalopatia |
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