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

1 sense of encephalomeningitis

Sense 1
meningoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis -- (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges)
       => meningitis -- (infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea)
       => 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))