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encephalopathia

encephalopathia is the alternative form of encephalopathy.

Meaning of encephalopathy

Noun

encephalopathy (countable and uncountable, plural encephalopathies)

  1. Any of various conditions affecting the brain.
    • Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    encephalosis

Forms of encephalopathia

pluralencephalopathias

Questions about encephalopathia

What is encephalopathia the alternative form of?
Encephalopathia is the alternative form of encephalopathy.

Words near encephalopathia in the dictionary

  1. encephalonize
  2. encephalonized
  3. encephalonizes
  4. encephalonizing
  5. encephalons
  6. encephalopathia
  7. encephalopathias
  8. encephalopathic
  9. encephalopathical
  10. encephalopathies
  11. encephalopathogenic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encephalopathia (page history and authors); encephalopathy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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