BRAIN DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain disease mean? 

• BRAIN DISEASE (noun)
  The noun BRAIN DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. any disorder or disease of the brain

  Familiarity information: BRAIN DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disorder or disease of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy

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)

 Context examples 

A constellation of signs and symptoms characterized by changes in personality, consciousness, and reflexes, resulting from neuropsychiatric abnormalities secondary to liver failure without evidence of other brain disease.

(Hepatic Encephalopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

These problems may be caused by brain disease, injury, or medical treatment, such as cancer treatment.

(Neuropsychologist, NCI Dictionary)

An exaggerated feeling of physical and emotional well-being not consonant with apparent stimuli or events; usually of psychologic origin, but also seen in organic brain disease and toxic states.

(Euphoria, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

“Although addiction is a brain disease, this discovery underscores how the body’s complex functions are exquisitely interconnected, revealing the need for integrated and innovative research.”

(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)

Broad group of severe mental and behavioral disorders etiologically traceable to brain disease, injury, or toxicosis; psychosis associated with endocrine disorders, drugs, and metabolic or nutritional abnormalities.

(Organic Brain Syndrome, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

U.S. federal health officials say the mysterious illness that has killed 13 people in Liberia came from a bacteria that can lead to the fatal brain disease meningitis.

(Experts Link Fatal Mystery Illness in Liberia to Meningitis Bacteria, VOA)

Tests on deceased former professional American football players showed nearly all of them had a chronic traumatic brain disease, according to scientific research published Tuesday in the JAMA medical journal.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)

Last year, the NFL acknowledged for the first time publicly a link between head blows sustained on the football field and brain disease and agreed to a $1 billion settlement to compensate former players who suffer from head trauma-related injuries.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)