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leucoencephalitis

leucoencephalitis is the alternative form of leukoencephalitis.

Meaning of leukoencephalitis

Noun

leukoencephalitis (uncountable)

  1. An epizootic disease of horses, characterized by drowsiness, imperfect vision, partial paralysis of the throat, twitching of the muscles of the shoulder, unsteady gait, and softening of the white substance of the frontal lobes; forage poisoning.

Origin of leucoencephalitis

From leuco- + encephalitis.

Questions about leucoencephalitis

What is leucoencephalitis the alternative form of?
Leucoencephalitis is the alternative form of leukoencephalitis.

Words near leucoencephalitis in the dictionary

  1. leucodystrophic
  2. leucodystrophies
  3. leucodystrophy
  4. leucoedema
  5. leucoemeraldine
  6. leucoencephalitis
  7. leucoencephalomalacia
  8. leucoencephalopathies
  9. leucoencephalopathy
  10. leucoerythroblastic
  11. leucoerythroblastosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leucoencephalitis (page history and authors); leukoencephalitis (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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