encephalitis, n.
(encephalitides)
(encephalitides)
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)
<noun.state>
cephalitis encephalitis phrenitis
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
acute hemorrhagic encephalitis
equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis
herpes simplex encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, acute inclusion body encephalitis
leukoencephalitis
meningoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis
panencephalitis
sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica
West Nile encephalitis