Sentence examples for incurred brain from inspiring English sources

A Saudi who incurred brain damage after trying to hang himself had been "treated here for depression," his 2004 assessment noted.

As a catcher, who absorbs dozens of foul tips off his mask and who can get pummeled when he tries to block the plate, Posada wants to make sure he has not incurred brain damage.

The situation in Guangzhou is eerily reminiscent of an episode in Havana, where, starting in the fall of 2016, at least 24 staffers at the U.S. Embassy incurred brain injuries after exposure to an equally mysterious source.

A fighter's risk of incurring brain injury while boxing is hotly debated between devotees of the sport and the medical community.

Further, while headgear protects a fighter from facial cuts, some observers think it increases a fighter's chance of incurring brain damage because it enlarges the hitting surface of the head and thereby makes the head an easier target.

When people suffer a stroke or otherwise incur brain damage that affects the emotional side of the brain, it impacts their lives negatively in a number of significant ways: They typically lose their jobs and their friends, and they often experience bankruptcy.

Another practical advantage is permitting, without an advance directive or proxy consent, discontinuation of costly life-support measures on patients who have incurred total brain failure.

Unless we overturned the "dead-donor rule"—the policy of permitting extraction of vital organs only from dead bodies then it would be illegal to procure organs from these living patients who have incurred total brain failure; yet the viability of their organs would require maintaining respiration and circulation with life-supports.

Four persons incurred their brain injury at young ages (4, 7, 14 and 17 years) while the remaining cases occurred in persons at least 18 years of age.

(Organs, of course, would not be viable if medical staff awaited a declaration of total brain failure which requires confirmatory tests hours after initial tests—in the patients in question, who will not incur total brain failure unless respirator support is discontinued).

The prestigious Society of Fellows at Harvard awarded him a three-year fellowship, warning him not to incur a brain injury in the meantime.