brain disease

Questions about brain disease

What does brain disease mean?

brain disease means "any disorder or disease of the brain".

What is another word for brain disease?

Close synonyms include brain disorder, encephalopathy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brain disease a common word?

brain disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.