cephalitis vs inflammation

inflammation vs cephalitis

cephalitis and inflammation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cephalitis	Yes	No	No	No
inflammation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inflammation is a hypernym of cephalitis; that is, inflammation is a word with a broader 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)
inflammation: a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

Other hypernyms of cephalitis include redness, rubor.

cephalitis (noun)	inflammation (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)	arousal to violent emotion
	the act of setting something on fire
	a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
	the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

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