Cephalitis in a sentence as a noun

Oliver Sachs wrote about L-dopa and encephalitis lethargica: initially, it awakens people frozen from lethargica--later it creates problems. So, it is not a cure, but has major 'side-effects'.

Cephalitis definitions

noun

inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)

See also: encephalitis phrenitis