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cephalitis

cep·ha·li·tis

uncommon archaic

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)

Origin

From cephal- + -itis.

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