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Definition of encephalopathy
encephalopathies
: a disease of the brain; especially : one involving alterations of brain structure
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Deer now had their own transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
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His brain will be sent to the renowned Boston University lab that studies chronic traumatic encephalopathy in former NFL players.
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These are severe disorders presenting in early infancy or childhood with profound weakness, encephalopathy, seizures and liver failure.
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In February, another study said that four former soccer players with advanced dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE.
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The cows developed a prion disease of their own, called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, nicknamed mad cow disease.
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All of the precautions lessen the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
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The encephalopathy had lessened, doctors determined, and she had been moved from intensive care to a private room.
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But there is no reliable test to detect the injury, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in its earliest stages.
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First Known Use of encephalopathy
1866
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