English > encephalitis: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever ('phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use). |
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| Synonyms | cephalitis, phrenitis |
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| Narrower | West Nile encephalitis | encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus |
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| acute hemorrhagic encephalitis | encephalitis that resembles apoplexy due to blood extravasation |
| equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis | encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse |
| herpes simplex encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, acute inclusion body encephalitis | Common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1 |
| leukoencephalitis | inflammation of the white matter of the brain |
| meningoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis | inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges |
| panencephalitis | diffuse inflammation of the entire brain |
| sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica | An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926 |
| Broader | inflammation, redness, rubor | A response of body tissues to injury or irritation |
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| Spanish | encefalitis |
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| Catalan | encefalitis |
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