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ENCEPHALITIS
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Irregular inflected form: encephalitides
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
cephalitis; encephalitis; phrenitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("encephalitis" is a kind of...):
inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "encephalitis"):
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)
Context examples:
An autoimmune acute encephalitis caused by antibodies against the glutamate NMDA receptor.
(Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, NCI Thesaurus)
ddhCTP may be able to inhibit all flaviviruses, a class of viruses that includes Zika as well as dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and hepatitis C.
(Scientists Discover How Antiviral Gene Works, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Barmah forest viruses are found in both vertebrates and invertebrates, and cause infectious arthritis, encephalitis, rashes and fever in humans.
(Barmah Forest Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include encephalitis, poliomyelitis, arachnoiditis, and meningitis.
(Central Nervous System Infectious Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include cerebrovascular disorder, hydrocephalus, and encephalitis.
(Non-Neoplastic Brain Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, one out of every thousand children who contract measles develop encephalitis, which can cause deafness or brain damage.
(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)
Alphaviruses are spread by insect vector, able to infect vertebrates and invertebrates, and cause arthritis, encephalitis, rashes and fever in humans.
(Alphavirus, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinically, this disorder may present as a fulminant pachymeningitis and/or encephalitis.
(Meningeal Sarcomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Human herpesvirus 5 is found in humans and causes mononucleosis-like symptoms in healthy individuals and pneumonia, hepatitis, encephalitis, myelitis, colitis, retinitis, neuropathy, mucoepidermoid carcinoma as well as other malignancies in immunocompromised persons, organ transplant recipients and newborn infants.
(Human Herpesvirus 5, NCI Thesaurus)
Recurrent outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) among children in India and Bangladesh could be down to exposure to agrochemicals used in lychee orchards rather than consumption of the fruit of the Asian lychee tree (Litchi chinensis), according to recent research.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
