TBI
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TBIs
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Medicine/Medical. traumatic brain injury: damage to the brain from a source outside the body, such as an object that strikes the head violently or penetrates the skull, which causes symptoms ranging from headache and dizziness to permanent physical or mental disability.
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Automotive. throttle-body injection: a fuel-injection system in which an injector delivers fuel to a central location within the intake manifold of the engine.
Example Sentences
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Thomas Smith, director of economic policy at the TBI, argued: "Britain's state pension system was built for a different era. We can't keep pouring money into a system that is increasingly unaffordable."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The museum may be at risk because of the TBI investigation, although the people of Adamsville—even those who think Pusser probably killed his wife—want it to remain open.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, director of Penn Medicine’s TBI research center, said that ibogaine is “one of the more promising compounds” for treatment of TBI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Earlier this month, Stanford University published a study in Nature Medicine of 30 veterans with TBI in which Sean participated.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025
But the current study found that females and whites were overrepresented among the 1,148 participants with TBI.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024
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