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tick-borne encephalitis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English

Syllables
tick--borne en-cephali-tis
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A viral infectious disease of the central nervous system borne by ticks, which most often manifests as meningitis, encephalitis, or meningoencephalitis.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

TBE (alternative)

Phrases

Tick-borne encephalitis virus

Questions

What does tick-borne encephalitis mean?
A viral infectious disease of the central nervous system borne by ticks, which most often manifests as meningitis, encephalitis, or meningoencephalitis.

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