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Eleanor had a cardiac arrest before the collapsed lung was identified and treated, causing an unsurvivable brain injury.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The barrister said the defendant was a family man and a parent, with a number of health issues including a brain injury, epilepsy, anxiety and depression.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
This technique allows scientists to track patterns of brain activity by measuring blood flow without relying on an injected contrast agent.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Although the brain plays a central role in how pain is experienced, researchers have struggled to identify the precise brain circuits responsible for pain triggered by movement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Your internal organs, especially the brain and heart, need a constant core temperature to function.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The total included 396 players who donated their brains and National Death Index records of 1,966 deceased players who didn’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Nearly 94% of the donated brains had CTE.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Most of college football’s top offensive brains are obsessed with predicting the future of the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
While others experience worsening memory and thinking problems, these individuals remain mentally sharp despite signs of the disease in their brains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
I been racking brains and nothing comes to mind.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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That way, it won’t turn into a brained brick because of a human error somewhere in northern Virginia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Hours before or after they passed, another member of the human family, likely the smaller brained, big-jawed Paranthropus, hurried along the same shoreline.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024
Larger brained animals could use their intelligence to find fruit more efficiently, which in turn provided more energy to fuel a larger brain.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022
No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
At times, an invisible finger tapped at the panes; it was some bird of the night, drawn by the light, braining itself against the glass….
From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
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