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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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);
[syn: encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Encephalitis \En*ceph`a*li"tis\, n. [NL., from Gr. 'egke`falos
   the brain + -itis.] (Med.)
   Inflammation of the brain. -- En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

encephalitis
    n 1: 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) [syn: encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis]