Crossword clues for encephalopathy
encephalopathy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encephalopathy \En*ceph`a*lop"a*thy\, n. [Gr. 'egke`falos the brain + pa`schein, paqei^n, to suffer.] (Med.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology neurology English) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.
WordNet
n. any disorder or disease of the brain [syn: brain disorder, brain disease]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "encephalopathy".
It looks like she died of brain encephalopathy due to acute lead poisoning.
Disneyland, Jeanine Hilt had an acute asthma attack, went into respiratory failure, and suffered oxygen deprivation so severe that she lost all brain function: in other words, she developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, exactly the same fate that had befallen Lia.
Colors he applied with his fingers and thumbs, scooping them out of tubs until he suffered from lead encephalopathy, leading to deafness, depression, and insanity.
Mad Cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but even more rare.
Reynolds had mentioned it in his letter: bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or more commonly, mad cow disease.
Traumatic encephalopathy will do that to you, where partial necrosis of brain tissue takes place.
Some scientists think that the encephalopathies are caused either by slow acting viruses or by another class of proteins called chaperones.
This new protein bears a striking similarity to the protein that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Disneyland, Jeanine Hilt had an acute asthma attack, went into respiratory failure, and suffered oxygen deprivation so severe that she lost all brain function: in other words, she developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, exactly the same fate that had befallen Lia.
We found entries about all kinds of human prion diseases-kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome-and the veterinary syndromes, scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but it's all old, old stuff.