[
US
/ɛnˌsɛfəˈɫaɪtəs/
]
[ UK /ɛnsˌɛfɐlˈaɪtɪs/ ]
[ UK /ɛnsˌɛfɐlˈaɪtɪs/ ]
NOUN
- 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)
How To Use encephalitis In A Sentence
- Objective: To observe the effect and endurance of the polysaccharose vaccine for prevention of epidemic encephalitis caused by Type A virus.
- This paper will mainly illustrate the advance in pathological mechanism of demyelinating canine distemper encephalitis.
- These conditions are causing complications such as encephalitis, pneumonia, diarrhea and conjunctivitis.
- The first concern is to rule out treatable forms of dementia such as encephalitis or chronic meningitis.
- Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot! Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
- Complications of mumps include meningitis, encephalitis and deafness.
- Stuttering can be a rare early manifestation in Japanese B encephalitis.
- - Encephalitis: fever, neurological signs, convulsions, coma, sometimes meningism with a clear CSF. Chapter 13
- The institute breeds aedes, anopheles and culex mosquitoes used in research toward development of repellents, drugs and vaccines to protect service members from such diseases as dengue fever, malaria and encephalitis.
- Coxsackie viruses can also cause meningitis, an infection of the meninges (the three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord), and rarely, encephalitis, a brain infection.