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Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.

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  1. n. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
  2. n. See Frenzy.
  3. 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)
  4. 1. (Med.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis. 2. See Frenzy.
  5. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain,attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
  6. 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)