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EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS

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

1. an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

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

• EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

encephalitis lethargica; epidemic encephalitis; lethargic encephalitis; sleeping sickness; sleepy sickness

Hypernyms ("epidemic 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))

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
(English proverb)
"Let sleeping dogs lie."
(Agatha Christie)
"A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie."
(Chinese proverb)
"He who protects himself from cold also wards off heat."
(Corsican proverb)

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