softening of the brain
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All had softening of the brain, all were paralytic.
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The death rate is 89.4 per 100,000, substantially that of nephritis, 90.1, and cerebral hemorrhage and softening of the brain, 90.4; all diseases of middle and advanced age.
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He dutifully went under canvas with his pugnacious battalion, but he was pretty much of a failure, declined into rose pruning, and died after a sad "softening of the brain."
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He died not long afterward of softening of the brain.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
Another of the dangers is gradual occlusion of the arteries bringing about necrosis with softening of the brain substance.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall