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phrenitis vs sleeping sickness

sleeping sickness vs phrenitis

phrenitis and sleeping sickness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
phrenitis Yes No No No
sleeping sickness Yes No No No
As nouns, sleeping sickness is a hyponym of phrenitis; that is, sleeping sickness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than phrenitis:
  • phrenitis: 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)
  • sleeping sickness: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
Other hyponyms of phrenitis 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, lethargic encephalitis, sleepy sickness, West Nile encephalitis.
phrenitis (noun) sleeping sickness (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
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