ENCEPHALOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encephalopathy mean? 

• ENCEPHALOPATHY (noun)
  The noun ENCEPHALOPATHY has 1 sense:

1. any disorder or disease of the brain

  Familiarity information: ENCEPHALOPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCEPHALOPATHY (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 ("encephalopathy" 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 "encephalopathy"):

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 

Oxygen deprivation in newborns, is also known as neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).

(Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation, NIH)

It is characterized by spastic quadriplegia, pseudobulbar palsy and encephalopathy.

(Central Pontine Myelinolysis, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare transmissible encephalopathy most prevalent between the ages of 50 and 70 years.

(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A very rare and fatal disorder of spongiform encephalopathy usually caused by mutations of the prion protein (PRNP) gene.

(Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may develop seizures, hydrocephalus, encephalopathy and meningoencephalitis.

(Cysticercosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A severe, often fatal encephalopathy which has been attributed to accumulation in the brain of aluminum from dialysate prepared with inadequately purified water.

(Dialysis Encephalopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Rapid deterioration of liver function causing encephalopathy and coagulopathy.

(Acute Liver Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare metabolic disorder characterized by the deficiency of mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase component of complex I. Signs and symptoms include cardiomyopathy, encephalopathy, enlarged head, and progressive leukodystrophy.

(NADH Dehydrogenase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Chromosomal rearrangements affecting the gene may be associated with epileptic encephalopathy with spastic tetraparesis and severe psychomotor retardation associated with cerebral atrophy, developmental delay with recurrent infections or lymphoma.

(NKAIN2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include jaundice and encephalopathy.

(Liver Failure, NCI Thesaurus)