endocervicitis
- n inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix
encephalomeningitis
- n inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges
encephalitis
- n 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)
encephalitis lethargica
- n an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
encephalocele
- n protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull