encephalitis : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: encephalitis	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for encephalitis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
encephalitis n 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) Synonym(s): encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Encephalitis \Enceph`ali"tis\, n. [NL., from Gr. [?] the brain + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the brain. -- {En`cephalit"ic}, a.