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encephalitogen

encephalitogen noun: any substance that causes encephalitis.

Noun

encephalitogen (plural encephalitogens)

  1. Any substance that causes encephalitis.
    • At the time, there was much controversy over whether brain homogenate contained one or multiple encephalitogens, and over which of the partially purified mixtures prepared with the limited methods available was the relevant encephalitogen.2008, Ehud Lavi, Experimental Models of Multiple Sclerosis, page 3

encephalitogen meaning in Tamil

encephalitogen in Tamil

மூளையழற்சி ஊக்கி

Forms of encephalitogen

pluralencephalitogens

Origin of encephalitogen

From encephalitis + -o- + -gen.

Questions about encephalitogen

What does encephalitogen mean?
Encephalitogen means any substance that causes encephalitis.
What is encephalitogen in Tamil?
Encephalitogen in Tamil is மூளையழற்சி ஊக்கி. See Encephalitogen meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is encephalitogen?
Encephalitogen is a noun.
What is the plural of encephalitogen?
The plural of encephalitogen is encephalitogens.

Words near encephalitogen in the dictionary

  1. encephalising
  2. encephalitic
  3. encephalitides
  4. encephalitis
  5. encephalitis lethargica
  6. encephalitogen
  7. encephalitogenic
  8. encephalitogenicity
  9. encephalitogenous
  10. encephalitogens
  11. encephalitozoon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encephalitogen (page history and authors); encephalitogen (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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