brain damage 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. brain′-dam′aged(-dăm′ĭjd)adj. ...
Increase in the body temperature to high levels takes place in both hyperthermia and fever. In fever, it is the result of shifting the temperature set point without a danger of brain heat damage. Vasodilation in NM produced a cooling of arterial blood flowing to the brain through CS. It ...
Management of the unconscious animal is discussed in the section on trauma in this chapter. Less severe lesions are usually not life threatening; however, the amount of residual damage likely depends on the size and location of the lesion. Lesions involving the cerebellum and brainstem are likely...
As a control group, we recruited 77 healthy volunteers (median age 36 years (range 20–68)) from the same environment as the patients (without a history of neurological or psychiatric disorders). These individuals had never presented COVID-19-related symptoms (fever, anosmia, cough, or dysgeus...
accidental injury,injury- an accident that results in physical damage or hurt 2.concussion- any violent blow blow,bump- an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle" Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ...
Our data showed that the entry of virus into EC followed by astrocytic damage was thought to trigger the onset of IAE. Despite the absence of viral proliferation, the accumulation of IAV-NP in cultured EC suggested that IAV proteins, but not viral proliferation, should damage EC. To test thi...
Sepsis survivors often display long-term cognitive impairments indicating a chronic brain damage despite recovery from the initial septic insult [9]. Numerous mechanisms triggered by sepsis have been proposed to underlie SAE, yet its ontogeny is complex and remains enigmatic. Intuitively, altered ...
Both lesions and tumors in the brain represent abnormal areas, but they are not the same. A lesion is a broad term that refers to any abnormal tissue or damage in the brain, whereas a tumor, is a specific type of lesion, characterized by the abnormal growth of cells. All tumors are le...
Based on this line of thinking, it logically follows that in the context of severe primary infratentorial brain injury, damage to other areas of the brain have no relevance to the diagnosis of BD/DNC. A third but less traditional concept of brain death is the “higher brain” formulation, ...
Hypoxic/ischemic damage is known to be greater in newborns at higher temperatures (Yager and Asselin, 1999) and the absence of fever would be important in limiting subsequent damage. Interestingly, several studies have shown that there is a lack of a fever response also in the early days ...