chronic traumatic encephalopathy
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[edit]Noun
[edit]chronic traumatic encephalopathy (plural chronic traumatic encephalopathies)
- (pathology, neurology) a form of traumatic brain injury; it is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury.
Synonyms
[edit]- (brain injury): CTE, dementia pugilistica, punch drunk syndrome
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- CTE (abbreviation)
Further reading
[edit]- chronic traumatic encephalopathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia