noun
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: ↑encephalitis, ↑cephalitis
• Hypernyms: ↑inflammation, ↑redness, ↑rubor
• Hyponyms:
↑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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.