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brain-damaged
brain damagen. Injury to the brain that is caused by various conditions, such as head trauma, inadequate oxygen supply, infection, or intracranial hemorrhage, and that may be associated with a behavioral or functional abnormality.
brain′-dam′aged (-dăm′ĭjd) adj.brain-damaged adj (Medicine) suffering from brain damage Translationsbrain-damaged
brain-damaged (1)[generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), atheoretical disease invented to explain certain uttercretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous;demented. There is an implication that the personresponsible must have suffered brain damage, because he shouldhave known better. Calling something brain-damaged is reallybad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure towork is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Onlysix monocase characters per file name? Now *that's*brain-damaged!"brain-damaged (2)[especially in the Mac world] May refer to freedemonstration software that has been deliberately crippled insome way so as not to compete with the commercial product itis intended to sell. Synonym crippleware. |