organic brain syndrome

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organic brain syndrome n.
Abbr. OBS
Any of a group of acute or chronic syndromes involving temporary or permanent impairment of brain function caused by trauma, infection, toxin, tumor, or tissue sclerosis, and causing mild-to-severe impairment of memory, orientation, judgment, intellectual functions, and emotional adjustment. Also called organic mental syndrome.

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organic brain syndrome

noun
mental abnormality resulting from disturbance of the structure or function of the brain 
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Organic brain syndrome is always a great word to know.
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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