brain damage

Example Sentences

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Determining precisely how many babies have died or suffered severe brain damage because of a lack of vitamin K is difficult.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Helen Edwards could never have imagined a virus she may have had since childhood would leave her with brain damage.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Researchers uncovered a molecular pathway that links gut activity to brain damage, particularly in people with certain genetic mutations.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 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

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