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

1 sense of hepatitis b

Sense 1
hepatitis B, serum hepatitis -- (an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids)
       => viral hepatitis -- (hepatitis caused by a virus)