HERPES ENCEPHALITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes

Synonyms:

acute inclusion body encephalitis; herpes encephalitis; herpes simplex encephalitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("herpes encephalitis" is a kind of...):

cephalitis; encephalitis; phrenitis (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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