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Definition: Encephalitis |
EncephalitisNoun1. 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). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "encephalitis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Etymology: Encephalitis \En*ceph`a*li"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression the brain -itis.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | Inflammation of the brain due to infection, autoimmune processes, toxins, and other conditions. Viral infections (see encephalitis, viral) are a relatively frequent cause of this condition. (references) |
Public Administration | Serious neurological disease caused by inflammation of the brain elements due to infection with a virus, microbe or parasite. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: EncephalitisSynonyms: cephalitis (n), phrenitis (n). (additional references) |
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 | First recognized in the 1930s, Venezuelan Encephalitis has been responsible for numerous outbreaks of febrile illnesses and encephalitis involving thousands of humans and hundreds of thousands of equines, primarily in tropical America.Credit: CDC. |  | St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) virus seen in a mosquito salivary gland, is normally transmitted to humans though the bite of a Culex mosquito.Credit: CDC. |
 | Photomicrograph of brain tissue from a West Nile encephalitis patient, showing antigen-positive neurons and neuronal processes (in red).Credit: CDC. |  | Electron micrograph of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus in a mosquito salivary gland; Alphavirus; EEE.Credit: CDC. |
 | West Nile virus is a flavivirus commonly found in Africa, West Asia, and the Middle East. It is closely related to St. Louis encephalitis virus found in the United States. The virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and some other mammals.Credit: CDC. |  | Common characteristics of Culiseta melanura include a long and curved proboscis, a dark-scaled abdomen, and slightly enlarged dark scales on the outer wing. This mosquito is a vector of the eastern equine encephalitis virus in bird populations.Credit: CDC. |
 | C. nigripalpus, though a primary vector for St. Louis Encephalitis, in vector competency studies it was found to be a competent, but only moderately efficient vector of West Nile Virus.Credit: CDC. |  | Salmonella septicemia has been associated with subsequent infection of virtually every organ system, and the nervous system is no exception. Here we see an acute inflammatory encephalitis due to S. typhi bacteria.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Aseptic meningitis or encephalitis. (references) | |
The prognosis for encephalitis varies. (references) | ||
Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain. (references) | ||
Business | Due to growing demands for diagnostic kits and vaccines worldwide, Taiwan manufacturers have primarily been producing medical diagnostic kits, cholera vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and toxoid. (references) | |
The Department of Health (DOH) is the largest end-user of biotechnology products, primarily of vaccines used to vaccinate the population against diseases such as diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, measles, hepatitis B, and Japanese encephalitis. (references) | ||
Travel | Latvia | Diptheria, hepatitis and tick-borne encephalitis are widespread. (references) |
Thailand | Excellent medical treatment is available in Bangkok, with good to adequate treatment available throughout the country . While the general level of health and nutrition is good, some tropical diseases are a problem . Hepatitis is endemic . The incidence of AIDS has leveled off due to educational awareness campaigns by the Royal Thai Government . However, Thailand is still considered a high-risk country, especially among prostitutes and intravenous drug users . Japanese encephalitis and malaria are a problem in rural border areas, but generally not in Bangkok, major cities, or major tourist destinations . Dengue fever outbreaks occur periodically throughout the country . Rabies is also a risk to consider due to the large number of abandoned animals roaming the streets. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Encephalitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Encephalitis" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "encephalitis": acute hemorrhagic encephalitis ♦ acute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ bovine spongiform encephalitis ♦ Dawson's encephalitis ♦ eastern equine encephalitis ♦ encephalitis lethargica ♦ Encephalitis Viruses ♦ epidemic encephalitis ♦ equine encephalitis ♦ herpes encephalitis ♦ herpes simplex encephalitis ♦ inclusion body encephalitis ♦ Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines ♦ lethargic encephalitis ♦ Limbic Encephalitis ♦ subacute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ Van Bogaert encephalitis ♦ Venezuelan equine encephalitis ♦ western equine encephalitis. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "encephalitis": pan-encephalitis, polio-encephalitis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "encephalitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | encefalit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التهاب الدماغ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | възпаление на мозъка, енцефалитит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 脑炎. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | encefalitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | encephalitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | encefalitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ورم مغز, ورم دماغ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | enkefaliitti, aivotulehdus, aivokuume. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | encéphalite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gehirnentzündung, Enzephalitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγκεφαλίτις (phrenitis), εγκεφαλίτιδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לקת "מוח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | agyvelõgyulladás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyakit otak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | encefalite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脳炎 (brain inflammation, nephritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のうえ" (bewitching, brain inflammation, charming, enchanting, nephritis, plantation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 뇌염. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | hjernebetennelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encephalitisay encefalite (cephalitis, enchain). (various references) encefalitã. (various references) энцефалит (cephalitis). (various references) encefalitis. (various references) encefalitis (brain fever). (various references) hjärninflammation (cephalitis), encefalit. (various references) าวะสมองอักเสบจากเชื้อไวรัส. (various references) beyin iltihabı, ansefalit. (various references) енцефаліт (cephalitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "encephalitis": meningoencephalitis. (additional references) | |
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"Encephalitis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encephalitus, encephalytis, encephelitis, encephilitis, encepholitis, encephylitis, encyphalitis, ncephalitis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encephalitis" (pronounced ense'fulī"tus) |
| 4 | -ī" t u s | arthritis, bronchitis, detritus, gastritis, hepatitis, laryngitis, mastoiditis, meningitis, osteoarthritis, situs. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, asbestos, berettas, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, duplicitous, emeritus, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, momentous, notice, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-l-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lecithinase. | |
-2 letters: anthelices, enthalpies, penalities, phenacites, plasticene, plasticine, tailpieces. | |
-3 letters: antisleep, cathepsin, cephalins, cisalpine, cisplatin, clipsheet, elephants, epithelia, ethicians, hesitance, inelastic, insectile, latencies, leachiest, lecithins, patencies, patiences, peachiest, penalties, pentacles, petechial, phenacite, phenetics, planchets, pliancies, sciential, splenetic, tailpiece, tapelines. | |
-4 letters: alienist, alpinist, antiship, antislip, asthenic, calipees, canities, capelets, capelins, centiles, cephalin, chanties, chaplets, cheapens, cheapest, cheapies, chelates, chiliast, chitlins, ciliates, cineaste, cleanest, echinate, elaphine, elephant, especial, ethicals, ethician, ethnical, haplites, haptenes, haptenic, heeltaps, hepatics, heptanes, hiplines, ichnites, lecithin, lenities, litanies, niceties, nitchies, painches, panelist, panicles, pantiles, pastiche, patience, pectines, pelicans, penalise, penicils, penlites, pentacle, petaline, petechia, phenates, phenetic, pintails, piscinae, piscinal, pistache, plainest, planches, planchet, platinic, pleaches, plenches, plenties, salicine, salience, sapience, sepaline, septical, silicate, sithence, speciate, tailspin, tapeline, theelins, thespian, tieclasp. | |
-5 letters: acetins, achenes, achiest, aitches, alpines, aphetic, aplites, aplitic, aseptic, calipee, caliphs, cantles, capelet, capelin, caplets, caplins, catlins, catnips, celesta, centals, centile, cetanes, chaines, chalets, chapels, chaplet, chasten, cheapen, cheapie, chelate, chilies, chitals, chitins, chitlin, ciliate, cineast, cleanse, clients, eclipse, elapine, elastic, elastin, elenchi, elicits, enchase, enclasp, enlaces, entails, entices, episcia, epistle, escheat, etesian, ethanes, ethical, ethnics, halites, hantles, haplite, haptene, haptens, hatpins, heeltap, heinies, heliast, helices, hepatic, hepcats, heptane, hipline, ichnite, incepts, incisal, incites, inclasp, inclips, inhales, inlaces, inphase, inscape, inspect, isatine, ischial, italics, laciest, laicise, laities, lancets, latches, lateens, latices, leaches, leanest, lectins, letches, lethean, license, licente, lichees, lichens, lineate, liniest, lisente, litchis, lithias, nailset, nitchie, pachisi, paliest, panicle, panties, pantile, patches, patines, peaches, peahens, pechans, pectase, pectens, pectins, pelican, pelites, pelitic, penates, pencels, pencils, penicil, penlite, pensile, phenate, pianist, picante, pieties, pileate, pinches, pineals, piniest, pinites, pintail, pintles, piscina, piscine, pitches, placets, plaices, plaints, planche, planets, planish, plastic, platens, platies, plenish, plenist, plicate, plinths, pschent, salicin, salient, saltine, sanicle, sapient, satchel, scalene, scaleni, sectile, selenic, setline, sheitan, sheltie, shilpit, sienite, silence, slainte, spancel, spaniel, spathic, special, spelean, sphenic, spicate, spinach, spinate, splenia, splenic, splenii, stencil, sthenia, sthenic, tahinis, talipes, teaches, techies, tenaces, tenails, tenches, tensile, theelin, theines, tiepins, tincals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-i-l-n-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: encephalitides. | |
+3 letters: phenomenalistic. | |
+4 letters: postencephalitic. | |
+5 letters: australopithecine, encephalomyelitis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 63 65 70 68 61 6C 69 74 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.-. . .--. .... .- .-.. .. - .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110000 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n c e p h a l i t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0063 0065 0070 0068 0061 006C 0069 0074 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398069718274677875867585 |
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