encephalitis
en·cep·ha·litis
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 encephal- + -itis.
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