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

1 sense of panencephalitis

Sense 1
panencephalitis -- (diffuse inflammation of the entire brain)
       => 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))