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encephalitis

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) An inflammation of the brain.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Encephalitis is an sudden onset inflammation of the brain . Encephalitis with meningitis is known as meningoencephalitis . Symptoms include headache , fever , confusion , drowsiness , and fatigue . Further symptoms include seizures or convulsions , tremors ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encephalitis \En*ceph`a*li"tis\, n. [NL., from Gr. 'egke`falos the brain + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the brain. -- En`ceph*a*lit"ic , a.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a result he contracted encephalitis , an inflammation of the brain. ▪ At least two deaths were directly attributed to encephalitis . ▪ Carbon monoxide or manganese poisoning and encephalitis are rare causes of the parkinsonian ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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) [syn: cephalitis , phrenitis ] [also: encephalitides (pl)]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inflammation of the brain," 1843, from encephalo- "the brain" + -itis . Related: Encephalitic .

Usage examples of encephalitis.

In their opinion, meningitis, encephalitis, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or other central nervous problems were unlikely.

If all the bacteria I have spotted in the last half-hour or so were permitted to reproduce unchecked, Norman would be down with typhoid, two or three kinds of gangrene, some form of encephalitis, and half-a-dozen types of strep infection.

In addition, Lassa fever often involves hearing loss, tremors, and inflammation of the brain, or encephalitis, as well as serious breathing problems.

I could have had tuberculosis or anthrax or smallpox, I could have had encephalitis lethargica, better known as sleeping sickness.

An autopsy turned up encephalitis and myelitis of the brain, including Negri bodies in the pyramidal cells of the hippocampus, and Purkinje cells of the cerebellum.

Henry, is to go and get yourself a frosted chocolate and when you sit at the soda fountain keep your eyes peeled and forget about the destiny of man because you might still find yourself a nice lay and a good dean lay will dean your ballbearing out and leave a good taste in your mouth whereas this only brings on dyspepsia, dandruff, halitosis, encephalitis.

For instance when that vegetarian grazing animal, the cow, was fed meat and offal, bovine spongiform encephalitis infected herds and spread to the perpetrators of the crime.

You know, of course, that he's had Encephalitis Lethargica, sleepy sickness, as it's commonly called?

In 1916, in one such case, people in Europe and America began to come down with a strange sleeping sickness, which became known as encephalitis lethargica.

We know a hundred things that will kill the slug-smallpox, typhus, syphilis, encephalitis lethargica, Obermeyer's virus, plague, yellow fever, and so on.

We know a hundred things that will kill the slug-smallpox, typhus, syphilis, encephalitis lethargica, Obermeyer’.

And we've called it a kind of sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica.

Louis Encephalitis, West Nile Virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Western Equine, LaCrosse Encephalitis .

Then there were all the diseases one is vulnerable to in the woods--giardiasis, eastern equine encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, and shigellosis, to offer but a sampling.

Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by the prick of a mosquito, attacks the brain and central nervous system.