Term: brain damage: injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.
Candidate hypernym: injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. → 1
Candidate hypernym: counterattack: an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: conceptualization: inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally → 0
Candidate hypernym: drip feed: the administration of a solution (blood or saline or plasma etc.) one drop at a time → 0
Candidate hypernym: buckeye: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut → 0
Candidate hypernym: motley: a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England → 0
Candidate hypernym: verdicchio: a dry white Italian wine made from Verdicchio grapes → 0
Candidate hypernym: syndrome: a complex of concurrent things → 0
Candidate hypernym: nest: a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young → 0
Candidate hypernym: vetchling: any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils → 0
Candidate hypernym: balancer: an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions → 0