Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun acute_inclusion_body_encephalitis

1 sense of acute inclusion body encephalitis

Sense 1
herpes simplex encephalitis, herpes encephalitis, acute inclusion body encephalitis -- (common form of acute encephalitis caused by herpes simplex 1; usually affects the temporal and frontal lobes)
       => encephalitis, cephalitis, 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))