encephalitis

1. 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) (synset 114365537)
   is a type of: inflammation, redness, rubor - a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: cephalitis, phrenitis

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