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encefalopatía

encephalopathy

noun en-seh-fah-loh-pah-TEE-ah Rare
Body & Health Medicine

Origin: From Greek enkephalos ('brain') + pathos ('disease').

Usage Note

Encefalopatía is a medical term denoting a disease or disorder of the brain. It is almost always encountered in compound forms, most notably encefalopatía espongiforme bovina ('bovine spongiform encephalopathy', or BSE/mad cow disease). All Spanish nouns ending in -ía are feminine. The word is pronounced with five syllables and the stress on the antepenultimate syllable of the ending.

Examples

"Le diagnosticaron una encefalopatía metabólica."

Natural Translation

They diagnosed him with a metabolic encephalopathy.

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