cephalitis

Noun cephalitis has 1 sense

• cephalitis(n = noun.state) 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);
is a kind of inflammation, redness, rubor
has particulars: acute hemorrhagic encephalitis, equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis, acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, herpes simplex encephalitis, leukoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis, panencephalitis, encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, west nile encephalitis