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Inflammation of the brain.

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  1. n. Inflammation of the brain.
  2. n. 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)
  3. Inflammation of the brain. -- En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.
  4. Inflammation of the brain.-- En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.
  5. n:100 n. 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)