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2014 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 427A - Services to Aging Persons and Persons With Disabilities
NRS 427A.800 - Traumatic brain injury defined.

NV Rev Stat § 427A.800 (2014) What's This?

As used in this section and NRS 427A.850 and 427A.860, traumatic brain injury means a sudden shock or damage to the brain or its coverings which is not of a degenerative nature and produces an altered state of consciousness or temporarily or permanently impairs the mental, cognitive, behavioral or physical functioning of the brain. The term does not include:

1. A cerebral vascular accident;

2. An aneurism; or

3. A congenital defect.

(Added to NRS by 2009, 2393; A 2013, 216)

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