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

1 sense of equine encephalitis

Sense 1
equine encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis -- (encephalitis caused by a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito from an infected horse)
       => 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))