subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis

Questions about subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis

What does subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis mean?

subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis means "a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years".

What is another word for subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis?

Close synonyms include subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, SSPE, inclusion body encephalitis, subacute inclusion body encephalitis, sclerosing leukoencephalitis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis a common word?

subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.