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Cephalitis Definition & Meaning

cephalitis
noun
  1. 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)

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What does cephalitis mean?
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)
What part of speech is cephalitis?
Cephalitis is a noun.

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