EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equine encephalomyelitis mean? 

• EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (noun)
  The noun EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS has 1 sense:

1. encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse

  Familiarity information: EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

equine encephalitis; equine encephalomyelitis

Hypernyms ("equine encephalomyelitis" 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))