encephalitis

English

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 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)

See also

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