Acute epidemic leukoencephalitis
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acute epidemic leukoencephalitis n.
a usually fatal form of leukoencephalitis that is characterized by acute onset of fever, followed by convulsions, delirium, and coma, and is -ssociated with localized hemorrhaging in the central nervous system. also called strümpell’s disease.
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