phrenitis vs sleepy sickness

sleepy sickness vs phrenitis

phrenitis and sleepy sickness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phrenitis	Yes	No	No	No
sleepy sickness	Yes	No	No	No

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

phrenitis (noun)	sleepy 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

Difference between phrenitis and sleepy sickness

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