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

1 sense of west nile encephalitis

Sense 1
West Nile encephalitis -- (encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds)
       => 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))