EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equine encephalitis mean? 

• EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS (noun)
  The noun EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS has 1 sense:

1. encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse

  Familiarity information: EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

equine encephalitis; equine encephalomyelitis

Hypernyms ("equine 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))

 Context examples 

The alphaviral replicon of this vaccine is an attenuated strain of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) in which 3 of the 7 viral genes were substituted with a truncated HER2 gene to create a self-amplifying replicon RNA.

(HER2 ECD+TM Virus-like Replicon Particles Vaccine AVX901, NCI Thesaurus)