brain disorder

1. 1.

   any disorder or disease of the brain

   Synonymsencephalopathybrain disease

   Broadernervous disorder

   Narrowerepilepsyapraxiaparalysis agitanscerebral palsyagraphiaacataphasiaaphasiaagnosiaCreutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseReye's syndrome

Questions about brain disorder

What does brain disorder mean?

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

What is another word for brain disorder?

Close synonyms include encephalopathy, brain disease. 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 disorder a common word?

brain disorder 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.