ENCEPHALITIS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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)
   Synonym(s)
   • cephalitis (what does cephalitis mean?)
   • phrenitis (what does phrenitis mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) encephalitis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • inflammation (what does inflammation mean?)
   • redness (what does redness mean?)
   • rubor (what does rubor mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • acute hemorrhagic encephalitis (what does acute hemorrhagic encephalitis mean?)
   • equine encephalitis (what does equine encephalitis mean?)
   • equine encephalomyelitis (what does equine encephalomyelitis mean?)
   • herpes simplex encephalitis (what does herpes simplex encephalitis mean?)
   • herpes encephalitis (what does herpes encephalitis mean?)
   • acute inclusion body encephalitis (what does acute inclusion body encephalitis mean?)
   • leukoencephalitis (what does leukoencephalitis mean?)
   • meningoencephalitis (what does meningoencephalitis mean?)
   • cerebromeningitis (what does cerebromeningitis mean?)
   • encephalomeningitis (what does encephalomeningitis mean?)
   • panencephalitis (what does panencephalitis mean?)
   • sleeping sickness (what does sleeping sickness mean?)
   • sleepy sickness (what does sleepy sickness mean?)
   • epidemic encephalitis (what does epidemic encephalitis mean?)
   • lethargic encephalitis (what does lethargic encephalitis mean?)
   • encephalitis lethargica (what does encephalitis lethargica mean?)
   • West Nile encephalitis (what does West Nile encephalitis mean?)