| ATE | acute toxic encephalopathy; adipose tissue extract; autologous tumor extract |
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| BSE | behavior summarized evaluation; bilateral intranasal sphenoethmoiclectomy; bilateral symmetrical and... |
| DE | deprived eye; diagnostic error; dialysis encephalopathy; digestive energy; dose equivalent; dream el... |
| DES | dementia rating scale; dermal-epidermal separation; dialysis encephalopathy syndrome; diethylstilbes... |
| DIHE | drug-induced hepatic encephalopathy |
| pulmonary encephalopathy | Coma seen with advanced lung failure and resultant hypoventilation. Synonym: CO2 narcosis, hypoxic-hypercarbic encephalopathy, pulmonary encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| severe postanoxic encephalopathy | Coma that develops a few days to 3 weeks after an acute hypoxic insult; the latter was usually severe enough to cause an initial bout of coma, which cleared, and was followed by a transient interval of apparent normality. Synonym: severe postanoxic encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypernatraemic encephalopathy | Subarachnoid and subdural effusions in infants with hypernatraemic dehydration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypertensive encephalopathy | A metabolic encephalopathy caused by diffuse cerebral oedema; follows an abrupt elevation of blood pressure in a long-term hypertensive patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypoxic-hypercarbic encephalopathy | Coma seen with advanced lung failure and resultant hypoventilation. Synonym: CO2 narcosis, hypoxic-hypercarbic encephalopathy, pulmonary encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy | Damage to cells in the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) from inadequate oxygen. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy allegedly may cause in death in the newborn period or result in what is later recognised as developmental delay, mental retardation, or cerebral palsy. This is an area of considerable medical and medicolegal debate. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spongiform encephalopathy | An encephalopathy characterised by vacuolation within nerve and glial cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing encephalopathy | Subacute encephalomyelopathy affecting infants, causing dementia, spasticity, and optic atrophy; autosomal recessive inheritance. Synonym: necrotizing encephalomyelopathy, necrotizing encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subacute spongiform encephalopathy | A form of spongiform encephalopathy that is associated with a "slow virus", which to date has not been adequately described, is transmissible, and has a rapidly progressive, fatal course; e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome, scrapie. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy | One of the causes of multiinfarct dementia, in which there are many infarcts and lacunes in the white matter, with relative sparing of the cortex and basal ganglia. Synonym: Binswanger's encephalopathy, encephalitis subcorticalis chronica, subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| demyelinating encephalopathy | Extensive idiopathic loss of myelin sheaths in the brain, as occurs in leukodystrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dialysis encephalopathy syndrome | <syndrome> A progressive (often fatal) diffuse encephalopathy which occurs in a few patients who undergo chronic haemodialysis, dementia is a key feature (27 Sep 1997) |
| thyrotoxic encephalopathy | A metabolic encephalopathy arising in severe cases of thyrotoxicosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transmissible mink encephalopathy | <virology> Unconventional type of slow virus infection, similar to kuru, scrapie and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. See: prion. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (18 Nov 1997) |
| traumatic encephalopathy | An encephalopathy resulting from structural brain injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encephalopathy |
A disease of the brain; especially : one involving alterations of brain structure
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| encephalopathy |
any disease or disorder of the structure or function of the brain, especially those that are destructive, worsening, or chronic.
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| encephalopathy |
Disease of the brain
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| encephalopathy |
brain pathology of varied origins (metabolic, degenerative, genetic, ?
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| encephalopathy |
Serious brain function abnormalities experienced by some patients with advanced liver disease. Symptoms most commonly include confusion, disorientation, insomnia, and may progress to a coma.
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