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LEUKOENCEPHALITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leukoencephalitis mean?
• LEUKOENCEPHALITIS (noun)
The noun LEUKOENCEPHALITIS has 1 sense:
1. inflammation of the white matter of the brain
Familiarity information: LEUKOENCEPHALITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of the white matter of the brain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("leukoencephalitis" 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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