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BRAIN DAMAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("brain damage" is a kind of...):
nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder (a disorder of the nervous system)
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Context examples:
Mice and rats injected with lactoferrin 30 minutes after hemorrhages recovered faster and had reduced brain damage.
(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)
Significant brain damage from Alzheimer's disease can occur years before any symptoms such as memory loss and cognitive decline appear.
(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Brain damage which has persisted over a long period of time.
(Chronic Encephalopathy, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
If your brain goes without oxygen for more than four minutes, you could have brain damage or die.
(Choking, NIH)
While these drugs cannot cure dementia or repair brain damage, they may improve symptoms or slow down the disease.
(Dementia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Permanent brain damage or death can happen quickly.
(CPR, NIH)
It may cause brain damage in infancy.
(Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
It results from brain damage by existing high levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin.
(Kernicterus, NCI Thesaurus)
It can block blood vessels in the brain and lead to stroke and brain damage.
(Meningitis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Previously, they found that altering Cdk5 sped up the genetic aging process, causing the flies to die earlier than normal and have problems with walking or flying late in life and greater signs of neurodegenerative brain damage.
(New study implicates hyperactive immune system in aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)
