minimal brain damage

Questions about minimal brain damage

What does minimal brain damage mean?

minimal brain damage means "a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders".

What is another word for minimal brain damage?

Close synonyms include attention deficit disorder, ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, hyperkinetic syndrome. 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 minimal brain damage a common word?

minimal brain damage 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.