subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Noun subacute sclerosing panencephalitis has 1 sense

• subacute sclerosing panencephalitis(n = noun.state) bosin's disease, dawson's encephalitis, inclusion body encephalitis, sclerosing leukoencephalitis, sspe, subacute inclusion body encephalitis, subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis, 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;
is a kind of panencephalitis