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EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse
Synonyms:
equine encephalitis; equine encephalomyelitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("equine 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))