Cephalitis

Ceph`a`li´tis

n.

1.

(Med.) Same as Phrenitis.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cephalitis - 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) encephalitis, phrenitis inflammation, redness, rubor - a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat acute hemorrhagic encephalitis - encephalitis that resembles apoplexy due to blood extravasation equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis - encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, herpes simplex encephalitis - common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes leukoencephalitis - inflammation of the white matter of the brain cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis - inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges panencephalitis - diffuse inflammation of the entire brain encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness - an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness West Nile encephalitis - encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds