encephalitis

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Etymology

From encephal- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlaɪtɪs/, /ɛnˌkɛfəˈlaɪtɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

encephalitis (countable and uncountable, plural encephalitides)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the brain.

Synonyms

• cephalitis
• phrenitis

Derived terms

• Australian encephalitis
• autoencephalitis
• cerebroencephalitis
• Cree encephalitis
• eastern equine encephalitis
• encephalitic
• encephalitis lethargica
• encephalitogen
• encephalitogenous
• granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
• herpesencephalitis
• Japanese encephalitis (Japanese encephalitis virus)
• leucoencephalitis
• leukoencephalitis
• meningoencephalitis
• Murray Valley encephalitis
• myeloencephalitis
• panencephalitis
• periencephalitis
• polioencephalitis
• postencephalitis
• Powassan encephalitis
• Russian encephalitis
• Russian spring–summer encephalitis
• tick-borne encephalitis (Tick-borne encephalitis virus)
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis
• ventriculoencephalitis
• West Nile encephalitis

Translations

inflammation of the brain

Armenian: էնցեֆալիտ (hy) (ēncʻefalit) Bulgarian: енцефалит m (encefalit) Catalan: encefalitis (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 腦炎 / 脑炎 (zh) (nǎoyán) Czech: encefalitida f Dutch: hersenontsteking (nl) f Esperanto: encefalito Finnish: aivotulehdus (fi), enkefaliitti (fi), aivokuume (fi) French: encéphalite (fr) f Galician: encefalite (gl) f German: Enzephalitis (de) f, Gehirnentzündung (de) f Greek: εγκεφαλίτιδα (el) f (egkefalítida) Hungarian: agyvelőgyulladás (hu) Icelandic: heilabólga (is) f Italian: encefalite (it) f Japanese: 脳炎 (ja) (のうえん, nōen) Korean: 뇌염(腦炎) (ko) (noeyeom) Malay: radang otak, ensefalitis Malayalam: മസ്തിഷ്കജ്വരം (ml) (mastiṣkajvaraṁ) Polish: zapalenie mózgu (pl) n Portuguese: encefalite f Romanian: encefalită (ro) f Russian: энцефали́т (ru) m (encefalít) Spanish: encefalitis (es) f Swedish: encefalit (sv) c, hjärninflammation (sv) c Tagalog: magang-utak, ensepalitis Thai: สมองอักเสบ (sà-mɔ̌ɔng-àk-sèep) Turkish: ensefalit (tr), beyin iltihabı Uyghur: مېڭە ياللۇغى (më'nge yallughi) Vietnamese: viêm não

See also

• meningitis
• sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, African lethargy, Congo trypanosomiasis)