Definition of "encephalopathies" [encephalopathies]

• Plural form of encephalopathy. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "CWD belongsto a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)."
• "This was not seen as a particularly controversial decision: Since encephalopathies are recognized by the Vaccine Court as table injuries, in the absence of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the court is mandated to grant an award for any encephalopathy that follows a vaccine within a set period of time."
• "In his piece, Kirby described a study that had appeared in the Journal of Child Neurology in 2006 that seemed to support the notion that children with mitochondrial disorders could be especially susceptible to vaccine-induced encephalopathies."