What's the difference between encephalitis and phrenitis?

Encephalitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the brain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (2) A difference was observed in susceptibility of adult male and female mice to St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus as measured by the death rate after intravenous challenge.
  • (3) A 24-year-old man from rural Mississippi had a case of California encephalitis (CE) that evolved as a subacute encephalomyelitis.
  • (4) Experiments were conducted with the tick-borne encephalitis (TE) virus; confirmation of a protective action of cellular immunity in mice was obtained.
  • (5) Two placebo-controlled double-blind studies were initiated to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of 5-iodo-2-deoxyuridine (idoxuridine) in biopsy-provedcases of herpes simplex virus encephalitis.
  • (6) The first patient, together with a classical syndrome of hypertensive encephalopathy, had peculiar EEG features consistent with a possible diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis.
  • (7) Its nonstructural and capsid proteins are most closely related to those of eastern equine encephalitis virus while its glycoproteins are most closely related to those of Sindbis virus.
  • (8) Trichinella encephalitis remains a rare but life-threatening illness.
  • (9) A more detailed 3-year survey showed that pig farms positive for Japanese encephalitis antibody were detected at the same sites in Hiroshima near Sapporo as negative farms.
  • (10) The anti-Banzi viral factor inhibited the in vitro Banzi viral RNA synthesis but not that of Eastern equine encephalitis virus or of Japanese encephalitis virus.
  • (11) Hydrocephalus and encephalitis in 14-day-old mice was induced by an intracerebral inoculation of a high dose of live Newcastle disease vaccine viruses.
  • (12) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
  • (13) Data from 30 cases of perivenous encephalitis (PVE) associated with viral diseases reveal pathological changes ranging from lymphocytic cuffing of vessels to severe vasculitis similar to the vasculitis of AHL.
  • (14) The case is described of a 49-year-old man who developed cryptococcal meningo-encephalitis ten months before his death.
  • (15) became globally amnesic following an attack of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis.
  • (16) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
  • (17) We report two cases of cytomegalovirus (CMV) encephalitis in immunologically normal adults.
  • (18) Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), a coronavirus, causes encephalitis and demyelination in susceptible rodents.
  • (19) Furthermore, in mice inoculated with rProHBmO143 and then inoculated with RVV harboring Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) gene 24-weeks later, no effect was recognized on duration of anti-HBs antibody persistence while anti-JEV antibody is being produced.
  • (20) The evidence points to the existence of two distinct clinical entities: 1) parkinsonism secondary to encephalitis lethargica, which had its greatest influence on the epidemiology of parkinsonism between 1920 and 1945; and 2) classic parkinsonism, which has undergone little change in the past hundred years.

Phrenitis


Definition:

  • (n.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
  • (n.) See Frenzy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The term phrenitis was conceived as acute mental disease associated with fever or with another disease, i.e.

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