acute inclusion body encephalitis

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1. common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes (noun.state)

hypernym	:	cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis,
definition	:	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)