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Definition of Cephalitis
1. Noun. 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).
Generic synonyms: Inflammation, Redness, Rubor
Specialized synonyms: 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
Definition of Cephalitis
1. n. Same as Phrenitis.
Definition of Cephalitis
1. Noun. (medicine) phrenitis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Cephalitis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalitis
Literary usage of Cephalitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of James Jackson, Jr., M.D. by James Jackson (1836)
"... now in our wards ; — one, that I have just related, of commencing cephalitis
discovered at its debut, in which life was saved by active treatment; ..."
2. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"... cephalitis is reported by Frederick Taylor.11 The patient, a boy of four years,
developed FIG. i. CEREBELLAR PIA SHOWING INFLAMMATORY CHANGES. a tremor, ..."
3. The Medical student's vade mecum by George Mendenhall (1871)
"OF INFLAMMATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. cephalitis. What are its varieties ?
The}' are meningitis and ..."
4. On the nature and treatment of softening of the brain by Richard Rowland (1851)
"... cephalitis ; inflammatory softening of the brain ; gangrene of the brain.
Some of these titles implying a doubtful or at least an incomplete pathology ..."
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