organic brain syndrome

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Any of a group of acute or chronic syndromes involving temporary or permanent impairment of brain function caused by trauma, infection, toxin, tumor, or tissue sclerosis, and causing mild-to-severe impairment of memory, orientation, judgment, intellectual functions, and emotional adjustment.organic mental syndrome

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Any plans to grow her exercise movement must, she insists, remain “completely organic.”
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Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.
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We have to use common sense inclusiveness, because we are quickly getting to a place where our brain is falling out.
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My father has suffered two strokes and endured brain cancer since I was arrested and imprisoned.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
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There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
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The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.
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