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encephalopathies

encephalopathies is the plural 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

Phrases with encephalopathies

Questions about encephalopathies

What is encephalopathies the plural of?
Encephalopathies is the plural of encephalopathy.

Words near encephalopathies in the dictionary

  1. encephalons
  2. encephalopathia
  3. encephalopathias
  4. encephalopathic
  5. encephalopathical
  6. encephalopathies
  7. encephalopathogenic
  8. encephalopathy
  9. encephalophagy
  10. encephalophone
  11. encephalophones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encephalopathies (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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