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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 weakness
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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