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noun
Inflammation of the brain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cephalitis, phrenitis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inflammation, redness, rubor
Narrower terms: 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
History
From encephal- + -itis.
Across languages
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
