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postencephalitis

postencephalitis noun: a form of parkinsonism, believed to be caused by a viral illness, that triggers degeneration of the nerve cells in the substantia nigra and leads to encephalitis.

Noun

postencephalitis (usually uncountable, plural postencephalitides)

  1. (usually) A form of parkinsonism, believed to be caused by a viral illness, that triggers degeneration of the nerve cells in the substantia nigra and leads to encephalitis.

postencephalitis meaning in Tamil

postencephalitis in Tamil

மூளையழற்பின்

Forms of postencephalitis

pluralpostencephalitides

Origin of postencephalitis

From post- + encephalitis.

Questions about postencephalitis

What does postencephalitis mean?
Postencephalitis means a form of parkinsonism, believed to be caused by a viral illness, that triggers degeneration of the nerve cells in the substantia nigra and leads to encephalitis.
What is postencephalitis in Tamil?
Postencephalitis in Tamil is மூளையழற்பின். See Postencephalitis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is postencephalitis?
Postencephalitis is a noun.
What is the plural of postencephalitis?
The plural of postencephalitis is postencephalitides.

Words near postencephalitis in the dictionary

  1. postempiricist
  2. postempiricists
  3. postemporal
  4. postencephalitic
  5. postencephalitides
  6. postencephalitis
  7. postencephalytic
  8. postendocytic
  9. postendocytosis
  10. postendodontic
  11. postendoscopic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postencephalitis (page history and authors); postencephalitis (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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