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meningoencephalitis vs cephalitis

cephalitis vs meningoencephalitis

meningoencephalitis and cephalitis both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
meningoencephalitis Yes No No No
cephalitis Yes No No No
As nouns, cephalitis is a hypernym of meningoencephalitis; that is, cephalitis is a word with a broader meaning than meningoencephalitis:
  • meningoencephalitis: inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges
  • 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)
Other hypernyms of meningoencephalitis include meningitis, encephalitis, phrenitis.
meningoencephalitis (noun) cephalitis (noun)
inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges 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)
Difference between meningoencephalitis and cephalitis

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