cephalitis Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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)
    phrenitis; encephalitis.

WordNet

Ceph`a*li"tis noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. head + -itis.
Definitions
  1. (Med.) Same as Phrenitis.

Webster 1913