What are the medical terms that mean brain?

Answer 1

Encephalopathy: encephal/o means brain, -pathy means disease condition.

The general category for the degenerative diseases of the brain is known as "dementia". Alzheimer's Disease account for about two thirds of all dementias. There is also vascular dementia, dementia due to Parkinson's Disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, and many others.

Answer 2

Cerebral means pertaining to the cerebrum.

Answer 3

The medical term for the brain and spinal cord together is the central nervous system. The other nerves make up the peripheral nervous system.

Answer 4

A brain tumor is officially a neuroma. Another way to describe a brain tumor is intracranial solid neoplasm.

Answer 5

The encephalon is the medical term for the entire brain.