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Definition of Brain disorder
1. Noun. Any disorder or disease of the brain.
Generic synonyms: Nervous Disorder, Neurological Disease, Neurological Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Epilepsy, Apraxia, Paralysis Agitans, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Parkinson's Syndrome, Parkinsonism, Shaking Palsy, Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Paralysis, Agraphia, Anorthography, Logagraphia, Acataphasia, Aphasia, Agnosia, Cjd, Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease, Jakob-creutzfeldt Disease, Reye's Syndrome, Wernicke's Encephalopathy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brain Disorder
Literary usage of Brain disorder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1857)
"How often such apparently trifling symptoms of brain disorder precede the fatal
act of homicide and suicide ! How much may be said for those driven by ..."
2. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1874)
"thing may be noticed in those of the sane, who, without" acute brain disorder,
do from time to time, when fatigued or weak, see spectral visions. ..."
3. The Journal of the Allied Societies by Allied Societies (U.S.) (1912)
"One is whether a lesion of the fifth nerve can produce a serious brain disorder?
I would say frankly that I have never seen a case in which lesion of the ..."
4. Studies on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1870)
"... as to the system being generally in a state of collapse or prostration, and
as little that the brain disorder depended essentially upon this condition. ..."