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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. injuries to the nervous system
  2. n. stupidity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.

Examples

  • “If he’s not breathing on his own, we’re talking four minutes from off-the-ventilator to dead, and probably with brain damage setting in before that.””

    Memory of Fire

  • “High-pitched crying after receiving the vaccine, Young said, “may be indicative of brain damage in the recipient child.””

    Simon & Schuster: The Panic Virus

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  1. neurological disease
  1. harm
  1. hurt
  1. trauma
  1. nervous disorder
  1. neurological disorder
  1. injury

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  3. aphasia
  4. disinhibition
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  2. punch-drunk
  3. spastic paralysis
  4. status epilepticus
  1. dysphasia
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  3. kernicterus
  4. kiss of life
  1. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
  2. cardiac resuscitation
  3. cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  4. CPR
  1. vegetable
  2. bruise

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