'Cephalitis' definitions:
Definition of 'cephalitis'
(from WordNet)
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) [syn: encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis]
Definition of 'Cephalitis'
From: GCIDE
- Cephalitis \Ceph`a*li"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. kefalh` head + -itis.] (Med.) Same as Phrenitis. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cephalitis'
From: GCIDE
- Phrenitis \Phre*ni"tis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. freni^tis, fr. frh`n, freno`s.]
- 1. (Med.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis. [1913 Webster]
- 2. See Frenzy. [1913 Webster]