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CEPHALITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Synonyms:
cephalitis; encephalitis; phrenitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cephalitis" is a kind of...):
inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cephalitis"):
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)
acute inclusion body encephalitis; herpes encephalitis; herpes simplex encephalitis (common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes)
leukoencephalitis (inflammation of the white matter of the brain)
cerebromeningitis; encephalomeningitis; meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges)
panencephalitis (diffuse inflammation of the entire brain)
encephalitis lethargica; epidemic encephalitis; lethargic encephalitis; sleeping sickness; sleepy sickness (an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness)
West Nile encephalitis (encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds)
