encephalopathy

English

Etymology

From encephalo- +‎ -pathy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

encephalopathy (countable and uncountable, plural encephalopathies)

1. (pathology, neurology) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.

   Synonym: encephalosis

   • 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

Derived terms

• alcoholic encephalopathy
• bilirubinencephalopathy
• bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• chronic traumatic encephalopathy
• encephalopathic
• Hashimoto's encephalopathy
• hepatoencephalopathy
• leucoencephalopathy
• meningoencephalopathy
• myeloencephalopathy
• transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
• Wernicke's encephalopathy

Translations

condition affecting the brain

• Armenian: էնցեֆալոպաթիա (ēncʻefalopatʻia)
• Catalan: encefalopatia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腦病 / 脑病 (zh) (naobing)

• Dutch: encefalopathie (nl) f
• Finnish: aivosairaus (fi)
• French: encéphalopathie (fr)
• Georgian: ენცეფალოპათია (encepaloṗatia)
• German: Enzephalopathie (de) f
• Greek: εγκεφαλοπάθεια (el) f (egkefalopátheia)
• Irish: einceifealapaite f
• Italian: encefalopatia (it) f
• Japanese: 脳症 (ja) (のうしょう, nōshō)
• Kazakh: ми дерті (mi dertı)
• Korean: 뇌질환 (noejilhwan)
• Latin: encephalopathia f
• Polish: encefalopatia (pl) f
• Portuguese: encefalopatia (pt) f
• Romanian: encefalopatie (ro) f
• Russian: энцефалопа́тия (ru) f (encefalopátija)
• Spanish: encefalopatía f
• Swedish: encefalopati (sv) c
• Turkish: ensefalopati
• Ukrainian: енцефалопатія f (encefalopatija)