cephalitis vs encephalitis lethargica

encephalitis lethargica vs cephalitis

cephalitis and encephalitis lethargica both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cephalitis	Yes	No	No	No
encephalitis lethargica	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, encephalitis lethargica is a hyponym of cephalitis; that is, encephalitis lethargica is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cephalitis:

cephalitis: 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)
encephalitis lethargica: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

Other hyponyms of cephalitis include acute hemorrhagic encephalitis, equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis, acute inclusion body encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, herpes simplex encephalitis, leukoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis, panencephalitis, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, West Nile encephalitis.

cephalitis (noun)	encephalitis lethargica (noun)
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)	an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

Difference between cephalitis and encephalitis lethargica

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