Definition of encephalopathy in English:
encephalopathy
nounPlural encephalopathies ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθiɛnˌkɛfəˈlɒpəθi
Medicine A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood)
a picture of how these encephalopathies are transmitted
mass noun patients with encephalopathy
Example sentencesExamples
- Prions are special proteins believed to be the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a group of rare, fatal disorders that slowly destroy the brain and nervous system.
- Neurodegenerative diseases causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are the subject of intense research.
- This extremely rare and fatal brain disorder belongs to a family of human and animal diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
- Hypertensive encephalopathy is the syndrome of central nervous system impairment associated with hypertensive crisis.
- Hepatic encephalopathy occurs in patients with portal hypertension and cirrhosis.
- Both mad-cow and mad-deer disease are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, in which brain proteins called prions deform, forcing other brain cells to degenerate along with them.
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as mad cow disease and its human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are not caused by bacteria or viruses.