Can you tell me about encephalopathy?

Encephalopathy: Encephalopathy is a general term to refer to an injury to the brain, by trauma, infection, anoxia, bleeding among other causes. In short the brain has been injured by any of the above mechanisns, there are others but these are the most common.

Nonspecific term: Encephalopathy is a non specific term meaning the brain (encephalo-) has suffered an injury (-pathy). It could be arise from toxic exposures like lead or radiation. It could be caused by infection, lack of oxygen or other event. Most often the term is paired with its suspected cause such as "lead encephalopathy".

A lot!!: Briefly encephalopathy is a term used when the brain is affected universally by either metabolic, infective' hypoxic or toxic causes.