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Encephalitis

//ɛnˌsɛfəˈlaɪtɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Inflammation of the brain. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

Etymology

From encephal- + -itis.

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