PANENCEPHALITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does panencephalitis mean? 

• PANENCEPHALITIS (noun)
  The noun PANENCEPHALITIS has 1 sense:

1. diffuse inflammation of the entire brain

  Familiarity information: PANENCEPHALITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANENCEPHALITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diffuse inflammation of the entire brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("panencephalitis" 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "panencephalitis"):

Bosin's disease; Dawson's encephalitis; inclusion body encephalitis; sclerosing leukoencephalitis; SSPE; subacute inclusion body encephalitis; subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis; subacute sclerosing panencephalitis; Van Bogaert encephalitis (a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years)

rubella panencephalitis (a rare loss of mental and physical skills in adolescents; associated with the rubella virus)