encephalitis vs epidemic encephalitis

epidemic encephalitis vs encephalitis

encephalitis and epidemic encephalitis both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
encephalitis	Yes	No	No	No
epidemic encephalitis	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

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

encephalitis (noun)	epidemic encephalitis (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 encephalitis and epidemic encephalitis

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