Editing Encephalitis (section)

==Terminology==

Encephalitis with [[meningitis]] is known as [[meningoencephalitis]], while encephalitis with involvement of the spinal cord is known as [[encephalomyelitis]].<ref name=NIH2017Fact/>

The word is from [[Ancient Greek]] {{Lang|grc|{{Script|Greek|ἐγκέφαλος}}}}, {{Lang|grc-latn|enképhalos}} 'brain',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary |url=http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/efts/dicos/woodhouse_test.pl?keyword=^Brain,%20subs. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305002545/http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/efts/dicos/woodhouse_test.pl?keyword=%5EBrain%2C%20subs. |archive-date=2017-03-05 |access-date=2013-01-10 |publisher=The University of Chicago Library |language=de}}</ref> composed of {{Lang|grc|{{Script|Greek|ἐν}}}}, {{Lang|grc-latn|en}}, 'in' and {{Lang|grc|{{Script|Greek|κεφαλή}}}}, {{Lang|grc-latn|kephalé}}, 'head', and the medical suffix ''-itis'' 'inflammation'.<ref>The word seems to have had a meaning of "lithic imitation of the human brain" at first, according to the ''Trésor de la langue française informatisé'' (cf. the article on [http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/encéphalite "encéphalite"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105194524/http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/enc%C3%A9phalite |date=2017-11-05 }}). The first use in the medical sense is attested from the early 19th century in French (J. Capuron, ''Nouveau dictionnaire de médecine, chirurgie...'', 1806), and from 1843 in English respectively (cf. the article [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=encephalitis "encephalitis"] in the ''Online Etymology Dictionary''). Retrieved 11 March 2017.</ref>