postconcussive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ concussive

Adjective[edit]

postconcussive (not comparable)

  1. Postconcussion.
    • 2007 January 18, Alan Schwarz, “Expert Ties Ex-Player’s Suicide to Brain Damage”, in New York Times[1]:
      Because he was coincidentally situated in Pittsburgh, he had examined the brains of two former Pittsburgh Steelers players who were discovered to have had postconcussive brain dysfunction: Mike Webster, who became homeless and cognitively impaired before dying of heart failure in 2002; and Terry Long, who committed suicide in 2005.

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