Path. [f. Gr. ἐγκέφαλ-ος the brain + -ITIS.] Inflammation of the brain and its membranes. Now chiefly in sense: ‘Inflammation of the substance of the brain as distinct from its membranes’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1843. Sir T. Watson, Lect. Physic (1871), I. 348. The disorder I am about to consider has been called encephalitis.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 717. The terms encephalitis and cerebritis denote inflammation of the substance of the brain.
1880. H. M. Jones, in Med. Temp. Jrnl., July, 185. One was complicated with encephalitis.
