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Definitions of cephalitis
  1. 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)

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  • acute inclusion body encephalitis common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes
  • west nile encephalitis encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds
  • subacute inclusion body encephalitis a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years
  • l. monocytogenes the type species of the genus Listeria; can cause meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion, abscesses, listeriosis
  • herpes encephalitis common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes
  • bosin's disease a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years
  • sleeping sickness an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
  • epidemic encephalitis an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
  • alphavirus an arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses
  • west nile encephalitis virus the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis
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