How to Use encephalopathy in a Sentence

encephalopathy

noun

• All of the precautions lessen the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Seattle Times, 12 June 2017
• The four-year-old spent more than two weeks in the hospital, her mom said, and developed a disease called encephalopathy, a swelling of the brain that caused her to lose her vision.
  — Ben Kesslen, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2020
• The cause was acute encephalopathy as a result of dementia, said a daughter, Nancy Skinner.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• The encephalopathy had lessened, doctors determined, and she had been moved from intensive care to a private room.
  — Ryan Osborne, star-telegram.com, 5 June 2017
• The cows developed a prion disease of their own, called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, nicknamed mad cow disease.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 26 June 2017
• Boehme has Hashimoto's encephalopathy, a rare disorder affecting the brain, which began at age 16.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy or HIE is a type of brain damage that occurs when an infant’s brain doesn’t receive enough oxygen and blood.
  — Daniel Chang, miamiherald, 28 Apr. 2017
• Still, the Boston University study that showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in all but one of the 111 brains examined postmortem was eye-opening.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2017
• The patients who come in with encephalopathy are confused and lethargic and may appear dazed, exhibiting strange behavior or staring off into space.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• The warrant said the boy suffered from severe medical issues including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, a defect caused by lack of oxygen and blood flow around the time of birth.
  — Fox News, 7 Aug. 2018
• But there is no reliable test to detect the injury, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in its earliest stages.
  — Lawrence K. Altman, M.d., New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The cause was encephalopathy, said a friend and professional colleague, Elizabeth Edmonds.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
• During hepatic encephalopathy, the liver fails to break down alcohol, letting excess amounts of manganese and ammonia enter the brain.
  — Kelly Santana Banks, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• The most frequent manifestations were muscle pain, headaches, encephalopathy and dizziness.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• He was diagnosed with post-traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury that damaged his motor control center.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• Eastern equine encephalopathy, a deadly virus that has sickened dozens of Americans in an unusually active outbreak, is spread to humans by what animal?
  — CNN, 10 Oct. 2019
• Deer now had their own transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
  — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• Rouse suffers from toxic encephalopathy and has been denied workers' compensation.
  — Leah Sottile, Washington Post, 10 May 2017
• One of the brains that the team studied also showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by the repetitive blunt-force trauma typical of concussions sustained in contact sports.
  — National Geographic, 9 June 2016
• The most common neurological conditions reported were seizures, either with or without fever and encephalopathy - an umbrella term for brain damage.
  — Victoria Forster, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• And Jamieson said researchers have since discovered why the patients developed Wernicke's encephalopathy, a result of vitamin B1 deficiency.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Hull noted in the documents the following injuries for the 18-month-old victim: head trauma, closed head trauma, brain injury, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, multiple retinal hemorrhages and multiple contusions to the head and body.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2019
• In a case study published in Radiology, doctors in Detroit reported brain scan abnormalities indicative of a rare encephalopathy linked to cytokine storms in an airline worker in her mid-50s who tested positive for the virus.
  — Greg Miller, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
• He was diagnosed eight years ago with cardiomyopathy and has suffered medical setbacks including heart failure and acute Wernicke's encephalopathy, which impacts motor functions such as his speech and memory.
  — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• In February, another study said that four former soccer players with advanced dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE.
  — Daniella Emanuel, CNN, 27 June 2017
• These are severe disorders presenting in early infancy or childhood with profound weakness, encephalopathy, seizures and liver failure.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 3 July 2017
• On June 16, his life ended due to hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, cardiopulmonary arrest, and respiratory failure, the family said.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• The official cause of death was hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, cardiopulmonary arrest, and respiratory failure, the family said.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
• Among his illnesses, Schmitz had a history of encephalopathy — progressive loss of memory and cognitive ability — and was unable to care for himself, according to a medical examiner's report.
  — Jesse Garza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
• McKee also found a single focus of Tau — the protein associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease found in dozens of former football players.
  — Tim Rohan, New York Times, 22 June 2016

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024