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encephalopathy
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encephalopathy [en‚sef·ə′läp·ə·thē]
(medicine)
Any disease of the brain.


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The degenerative brain disease affects an estimated 4.
Tysabri was withdrawn from the market as a therapy for relapsing MS in February 2005 after three people who had been taking the drug in clinical trials developed PML, a rare and often fatal brain disease.
In the century since German physician Alois Alzheimer first described the devastating brain disease that bears his name, the illness has resisted cure and its origins have remained elusive.
 
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