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(pathology) autoimmune encephalitis
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(pathology, dated) encephalitis or meningitis
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(pathology) Alternative spelling of brain fever [(pathology, dated) encephalitis or meningitis]
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cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy: a form of hereditary stroke disorder
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A degenerative disorder that causes progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain.
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(veterinary medicine) An often fatal stress-induced myopathy affecting captured wild animals.
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(medicine, dated) encephalitis
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(pathology) Synonym of meningitis
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(pathology) cerebral encephalitis
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(pathology) Synonym of meningoencephalitis
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(pathology) Synonym of encephalopathy
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(medicine) A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus
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(pathology, neurology) a form of traumatic brain injury; it is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
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Initialism of encephalitis lethargica (von Economo disease, sleepy sickness). [sleepy sickness]
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(pathology) A cerebral edema
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(pathology) Inflammation of the brain.
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Any substance that causes encephalitis.
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(medicine, rare) Synonym of encephalitogenic.
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(pathology) Associated with, or causing damage to the brain
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(pathology) Synonym of meningoencephalitis
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(pathology) Synonym of meningoencephalocele
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(pathology) Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
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(pathology) multiple sclerosis
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(pathology) Tending to rouse, or to be roused by encephalomyelitis.
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(medicine) Any disease that affects both the brain and the spinal cord
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(pathology) inflammation of the brain, spinal cord and spinal nerve roots
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(veterinary medicine) A viral disease afflicting pigs and some non-human primates, attacking muscle tissue and the central nervous system.
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Related to encephalomyopathy
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(pathology) That causes encephalopathy
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(pathology, neurology) Any of various conditions affecting the brain.
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(pathology) inflammation of the ependyma
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(medicine, pathology) A rare, usually fatal, subacute-to-chronic central nervous system disease caused by certain species of free-living amoebae
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(medicine) Herpes simplex encephalitis.
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(pathology) Synonym of mononucleosis
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Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
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(pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges
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(pathology) encephalomyelitis of the white matter of the brain
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(medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain
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(pathology) myeloencephalopathy associated with the white matter of the brain
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(medicine, US) Synonym of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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(pathology) lymphocytic choriomeningitis
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Inflammation of marrow, either bone marrow (osteomyelitis) or the spinal cord (myelitis).
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Alternative form of meningoencephalitis [(pathology) Inflammation of the brain and the meninges.]
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Alternative form of meningitis [(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.]
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(medicine, loosely, informally) Such symptoms as identified clinically but before knowledge of their cause is ascertained (that is, before diagnosis or before its confirmation); meningeal symptoms.
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Alternative form of meningism [(medicine) A set of symptoms similar to those of meningitis but not caused by it, involving the triad of nuchal rigidity (neck stiffness), photophobia, and headache, a sign of irritation of the meninges.]
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(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.
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(medicine) A dangerous form of bacterial meningitis caused by capsular group W.
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Meningococcal septicemia, a form of sepsis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis.
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A pathogenic bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, common cause of cerebrospinal meningitis
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(pathology) Inflammation of the brain and the meninges.
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(pathology) A form of encephalomyelitis that also affects the meninges
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(pathology) Having or relating to meningoencephalopathy
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(pathology) Any encephalopathy that also affects the meninges
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inflammation of the spinal cord and its enveloping arachnoid and pia mater, and less commonly also of the dura mater
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(pathology) meningomyelitis and radiculitis
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(pathology) inflammation of the meninges and ventricles of the brain
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(pathology) A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.
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(pathology) multiple sclerosis
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(pathology) Chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
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(pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and the brain
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(pathology) Any disease that affects the brain and the spinal cord
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(medicine) Invasion of the brain, especially by an infection
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Alternative form of neuromyelitis optica [(neuropathology) An autoimmune disease with a similar presentation to multiple sclerosis, but is common in Asians and in most cases is characterised by the presence of anti-aquaporin 4 antibodies.]
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(pathology) Any disease characterised by widespread encephalitis
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inflammation of the cerebellum
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Inflammation of the cerebral membranes, particularly leptomeningitis or inflammation of the pia mater.
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(medicine) Synonym of pachymeningitis
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(historical, medicine) Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; encephalitis, encephalomeningitis, or meningitis.
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Any encephalitis that is restricted to the gray matter.
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(medicine) Laminar cortical necrosis, a disease of cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by softening of the cerebrocortical grey matter in a layered pattern.
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(medicine) Of or relating to postencephalitis.
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(pathology) A form of encephalitis caused by the Powassan virus, a flavivirus transmitted by ticks.
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(pathology) Any degenerative disease caused by a prion
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(pathology) a brain infection caused by reactivation of latent JC virus
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A condition that resembles, but is not in fact, meningitis.
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(pathology) inflammation of the hindbrain, especially of the brainstem
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(pathology) A viral infectious disease of the central nervous system borne by ticks, which most often manifests as meningitis, encephalitis, or meningoencephalitis.
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Relating to uveomeningoencephalitis.
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(pathology) inflammation of the ventricles of the brain
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Synonym of Wernicke's encephalopathy
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(medicine, pathology) The presence of neurological symptoms — classically, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and confusion — caused by biochemical lesions of the central nervous system after exhaustion of B-vitamin reserves, in particular thiamine.
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