ACUTE INCLUSION BODY ENCEPHALITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acute inclusion body encephalitis mean? 

• ACUTE INCLUSION BODY ENCEPHALITIS (noun)
  The noun ACUTE INCLUSION BODY ENCEPHALITIS has 1 sense:

1. common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes

  Familiarity information: ACUTE INCLUSION BODY ENCEPHALITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACUTE INCLUSION BODY ENCEPHALITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acute inclusion body encephalitis; herpes encephalitis; herpes simplex encephalitis

Hypernyms ("acute inclusion body encephalitis" is a kind of...):

cephalitis; encephalitis; phrenitis (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))