brain damage

Example Sentences

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Baby Alissa suffered severe brain damage due to a lack of oxygen caused by the placenta coming away from the womb wall.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

After an aneurysm, your former life, free from the threat of death, of brain damage, of another aneurysm, is gone and buried.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Three months ago, another international team of scientists involving researchers in China, Spain and the U.K. also found they were able to undo physical brain damage in mice that resulted from Alzheimer’s.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

There is an interesting metaphor here for our world today: social media as the outlet for people who have suffered brain damage.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

I told her that doctors used to use the word idiocy to refer to mental retardation, and to the brain damage that accompanied hereditary syphilis.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot