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PANENCEPHALITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Diffuse inflammation of the entire brain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("panencephalitis" 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))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "panencephalitis"):
Bosin's disease; Dawson's encephalitis; inclusion body encephalitis; sclerosing leukoencephalitis; SSPE; subacute inclusion body encephalitis; subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis; subacute sclerosing panencephalitis; Van Bogaert encephalitis (a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years)
rubella panencephalitis (a rare loss of mental and physical skills in adolescents; associated with the rubella virus)
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