encephalitis Definition
en·cepha·li·tis (en sef′ə līt′is, en′sef-)
encephalitis Related Forms
en·ceph′a·lit′ic (-lit′ik) adjective
encephalitis Usage Examples
Converse of subject
affect: What is the best standard of care for patients affected by encephalitis?
Converse of object
- bear: Visitors to forested areas should seek medical advice about immunization against tick borne encephalitis.
- cause: In the normal brain, herpes simplex virus can cause encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain which is potentially fatal.
- contract: Respondents were given a list of 23 problems potentially experienced by people who have contracted encephalitis.
- follow: Keep your stress levels down A common concern following encephalitis is an apparent return of symptoms.
- develop: The risk of developing vaccine-related encephalitis is extremely small in comparison to the health risks associated with the diseases that vaccines prevent.
- have: Finally, the doctors told me I had encephalitis.
Adjective modifier
- tick-borne: Other risks: Tick-borne encephalitis is present in forested areas.
- viral: More critical was the fever from the viral encephalitis raging in her brain.
- equine: They are Western, Eastern and Venezuelan equine encephalitis, or WEE, EEE and VEE respectively.
- simplex: Her doctor, Dr. Green, diagnosed herpes simplex encephalitis.
- Japanese: Japanese encephalitis - rural areas only; assume year round transmission.
- acute: In two patients from southern Viet Nam, the clinical diagnosis was acute encephalitis; neither patient had respiratory symptoms at presentation.
Modifies a noun
- lethargica: The Sophie Cameron Trust's Research Program One of the aims of the Sophie Cameron Trust is to promote research into encephalitis lethargica.
- vaccine: It can take up to four weeks, for instance, for full immunity to develop following Japanese encephalitis vaccine.
- virus: Birds are the common hosts for several of the various encephalitis viruses.
Noun used with modifier
- simplex: The doctors told us Lauren was suffering from herpes simplex encephalitis.
- herpes: The doctors told us Lauren was suffering from herpes simplex encephalitis.
- virus: We describe the memory functioning of a professional musician who became amnesic following herpes simplex virus encephalitis in 1985.
- rabies: Rabies encephalitis has virtually a 100 % mortality, only 6 people worldwide are recorded as having survived episodes.
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