encephalitis

English

Etymology

From encephal- +‎ -itis.

Noun

encephalitis (countable and uncountable, plural encephalitides)

1. (pathology) Inflammation of the brain.

Synonyms

• cephalitis
• phrenitis

Derived terms

• autoencephalitis
• cerebroencephalitis
• Cree encephalitis
• encephalitic
• encephalitis lethargica
• herpesencephalitis
• Japanese encephalitis
• leucoencephalitis
• leukoencephalitis
• meningoencephalitis
• panencephalitis
• periencephalitis
• polioencephalitis
• postencephalitis
• tick-borne encephalitis
• ventriculoencephalitis

 

Translations

inflammation of the brain

• Armenian: էնցեֆալիտ (hy) (ēncʻefalit)
• Bulgarian: енцефалит m (encefalit)
• Catalan: encefalitis f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腦炎／脑炎 (zh) (nǎoyán), 脑炎 (zh) (nǎoyán)

• Czech: encefalitida f
• Esperanto: encefalito
• Finnish: aivotulehdus (fi), enkefaliitti (fi), aivokuume (fi)
• French: encéphalite (fr) f
• German: Enzephalitis (de) f, Gehirnentzündung (de) f
• Greek: εγκεφαλίτιδα (el) f (egkefalítida)
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• Hungarian: agyvelőgyulladás (hu)
• Icelandic: heilabólga (is) f
• Italian: encefalite (it) f
• Japanese: 脳炎 (のうえん, nōen)
• Korean: 뇌염 (ko) (noeyeom) (腦炎 (ko))
• Malay: radang otak, ensefalitis
• Portuguese: encefalite f
• Russian: энцефали́т (ru) m (encefalít)
• Spanish: encefalitis (es) f
• Swedish: encefalit (sv) c
• Tagalog: magang-utak, ensepalitis
• Thai: สมองอักเสบ (sà-mɔ̌ɔng-àk-sèep)

See also

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