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Noun encephalitis has 1 sense
  1. encephalitis, 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)
    --1 is a kind of inflammation, redness, rubor
    --1 has particulars:
     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
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