cephalitis vs redness

redness vs cephalitis

cephalitis and redness both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of cephalitis include inflammation, rubor.

cephalitis (noun)	redness (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)	red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
	a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

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