periencephalitis

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English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ encephalitis.

Noun

periencephalitis (uncountable)

  1. Inflammation of the cerebral membranes, particularly leptomeningitis or inflammation of the pia mater.
    • 1896, Horatio C. Wood, The Practice of Medicine, page 513:
      Idiopathic non-septic periencephalitis may be produced by profound grief, protracted anxiety, especially when accompanied by great overwork, partial starvation combined with the gnawing anxiety of deep poverty, and also, it is affirmed, by sunstroke.