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encenia |
encense |
encephalartos |
encephalartos caffer |
encephalic |
encephalitis
| encephalitis lethargica
| encephalocele
| encephalogram
| encephalography
| encephaloid
encephalitis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun encephalitis has 1 sense
- encephalitis(n = noun.state) cephalitis, 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); Array is a kind of inflammation, redness, rubor
has particulars: acute hemorrhagic encephalitis, equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis, acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, herpes simplex encephalitis, leukoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis, panencephalitis, encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, west nile encephalitis
CIDE DICTIONARY
encephalitis, n. [NL., from Gr. 'egke`falos the brain + -itis.].
Inflammation of the brain. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
encephalitis, n. inflammation of the brain.
Idiom
encephalitis lethargica an infectious encephalitis caused by a virus, with headache and drowsiness leading to coma; sleepy sickness.
Derivative
encephalitic adj.
THESAURUS
encephalitis
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