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meningoencephalitis vs encephalitis

encephalitis vs meningoencephalitis

meningoencephalitis and encephalitis both are nouns.

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

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