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EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epidemic encephalitis mean? 

EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS (noun)
  The noun EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS has 1 sense:

1. an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weaknessplay

  Familiarity information: EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

encephalitis lethargica; epidemic encephalitis; lethargic encephalitis; sleeping sickness; sleepy sickness

Hypernyms ("epidemic encephalitis" is a kind of...):

cephalitis; encephalitis; 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))


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