"panencephalitis" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis - 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)
subtypes:
- bosin's disease, dawson's encephalitis, inclusion body encephalitis, sclerosing leukoencephalitis, sspe, subacute inclusion body encephalitis, subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, van bogaert 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
- rubella panencephalitis - a rare loss of mental and physical skills in adolescents; associated with the rubella virus