encephalitis vs lethargic encephalitis

lethargic encephalitis vs encephalitis

encephalitis and lethargic encephalitis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, lethargic encephalitis is a hyponym of encephalitis; that is, lethargic 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)
lethargic 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, epidemic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, West Nile encephalitis.

encephalitis (noun)	lethargic 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 lethargic encephalitis

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