| brain disorder | | |
| n. (state) | 1. brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy | any disorder or disease of the brain. |
| ~ nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder | a disorder of the nervous system. |
| ~ 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. |
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