VIRAL HEPATITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viral hepatitis mean? 

• VIRAL HEPATITIS (noun)
  The noun VIRAL HEPATITIS has 1 sense:

1. hepatitis caused by a virus

  Familiarity information: VIRAL HEPATITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRAL HEPATITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hepatitis caused by a virus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("viral hepatitis" is a kind of...):

hepatitis (inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viral hepatitis"):

hepatitis A; infectious hepatitis (an acute but benign form of viral hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by ingesting food or drink that is contaminated with fecal matter)

hepatitis B; serum hepatitis (an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids)

hepatitis C (a viral hepatitis clinically indistinguishable from hepatitis B but caused by a single-stranded RNA virus; usually transmitted by parenteral means (as injection of an illicit drug or blood transfusion or exposure to blood or blood products))

 Context examples 

Causes include cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, metastases to the liver, genetic disorders, toxins, and drugs.

(End Stage Liver Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It also may be associated with Lyme disease, Wegener's granulomatosis, Sjogren syndrome, cryoglobulinemia, hypereosinophilia, temporal arteritis, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, leprosy, acute viral hepatitis A, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

(Mononeuritis Multiplex, NCI Thesaurus)