cephalitis
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1. 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)
| hypernym | : | inflammation, redness, rubor, |
| definition | : | a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | acute hemorrhagic encephalitis, |
| definition | : | encephalitis that resembles apoplexy due to blood extravasation (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis, |
| definition | : | encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, herpes simplex encephalitis, |
| definition | : | common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | leukoencephalitis, |
| definition | : | inflammation of the white matter of the brain (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis, |
| definition | : | inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | panencephalitis, |
| definition | : | diffuse inflammation of the entire brain (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, |
| definition | : | an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | west nile encephalitis, |
| definition | : | encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds (noun.state) |
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