Encephalitis
Of inflammation. May also be referred to as cephalitis and 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).
This concept's ID is @1~72323
Contains
- panencephalitis
Diffuse inflammation of the entire brain.
- equine encephalitis
Encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected...
- meningoencephalitis
Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges.
- acute hemorrhagic encephalitis
Encephalitis that resembles apoplexy due to blood extravasation.
- leukoencephalitis
Inflammation of the white matter of the brain.
- herpes simplex encephalitis
Common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually...
- West Nile encephalitis
Encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses...
- sleeping sickness
An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis...