encephalitis Path.
(ɛnsɛfəˈlaɪtɪs)
[f. Gr. ἐγκέϕαλ-ος the brain + -itis.]
Inflammation of the brain and its membranes. Now chiefly in sense: ‘Inflammation of the substance of the brain as distinct from its membranes’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1843 Sir T. Watson Lect. Physic (1871) I. 348 The disorder I am about to consider has been called encephalitis. 1866 A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 717 The terms encephalitis and cerebritis denote inflammation of the substance of the brain. 1880 H. M. Jones in Med. Temp. Jrnl. July 185 One was complicated with encephalitis. |