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WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does West Nile encephalitis mean?
• WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS (noun)
The noun WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS has 1 sense:
1. encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds
Familiarity information: WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("West Nile 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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