encephalitis

English

Etymology

From encephal- +‎ -itis.

Noun

encephalitis (countable and uncountable, plural encephalitides)

(pathology) Inflammation of the brain.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Derived terms

encephalitic
encephalitis lethargica (von Economo disease, sleepy sickness)

Japanese encephalitis
polioencephalitis

Translations

inflammation of the brain

Armenian: էնցեֆալիտ (hy) (ēncʿefalit)
Bulgarian: енцефалит m (encefalit)
Catalan: encefalitis f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腦炎 (zh), 脑炎 (zh) (nǎoyán)
Czech: encefalitida f
Esperanto: encefalito
Finnish: aivotulehdus (fi), enkefaliitti (fi), aivokuume (fi)
French: encéphalite (fr) f
German: Enzephalitis (de) f, Gehirnentzündung (de) f
Greek: εγκεφαλίτιδα (el) f (egkefalítida)

Icelandic: heilabólga (is) f
Italian: encefalite (it) f
Japanese: 脳炎 (のうえん, nōen)
Korean: 뇌염 (ko) (noeyeom) (腦炎 (ko))
Malay: radang otak, ensefalitis
Portuguese: encefalite f
Russian: энцефали́т (ru) m (encefalít)
Spanish: encefalitis (es) f
Swedish: encefalit (sv) c
Tagalog: magang-utak, ensepalitis

See also

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

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