sclerosing leukoencephalitis
- noun
- /skləˈroʊsɪŋ ˌluːkoʊˌɛnˈsɛfəlɪtɪs/
- Specialized
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leucoencefalitis esclerosa
- Early measles vaccination significantly reduces the risk of sclerosing leukoencephalitis in children.
Examples
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Doctors may consider sclerosing leukoencephalitis when a young patient presents with progressive neurological decline.
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Sclerosing leukoencephalitis is a devastating complication that can develop years after a measles infection.
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The diagnosis of sclerosing leukoencephalitis was confirmed after extensive testing.
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Children with sclerosing leukoencephalitis often face severe neurological challenges.
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Sclerosing leukoencephalitis is a rare condition where brain inflammation occurs years after a child has measles.
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After contracting measles, he was diagnosed with sclerosing leukoencephalitis, leading to serious health issues.
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Parents are advised to vaccinate their children to prevent sclerosing leukoencephalitis, a potentially fatal consequence of measles.
Synonyms
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A rare long-term brain disease after measles that slowly gets worse in children and young people
A brain inflammation after measles that slowly gets worse in young people and usually causes death within a few years
A rare long-lasting brain inflammation after measles in children and young adults that slowly gets worse and often causes death
A rare brain illness from measles that slowly gets worse and often kills children
A rare slow brain disease after measles in childhood that gets worse and often kills
A rare long-term brain infection caused by the measles virus that gets worse and often kills children and teenagers
A rare brain infection after measles that slowly damages thinking and movement
A rare long-lasting brain infection from measles that mainly affects children and young adults and often kills within three years
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly built from medical morphemes: 'sclerosing' (producing hardening) + 'leukoencephalitis' (inflammation of the brain's white matter), so a learner who knows those constituents can compositionally infer it denotes a hardening/inflammatory condition of white matter. Medical Greek/Latin roots are cross-linguistically familiar, which supports immediate compositional understanding, though clinical severity details (progressive/fatal) are not encoded in the form.
Etymology
Sclerosing leukoencephalitis literally names the damage in the brain: sclerosing means forming hard scar tissue and leukoencephalitis joins 'leuko' (meaning 'white') with 'encephalitis' (meaning 'inflammation' or swelling of the brain). That's why the term describes a rare, long-lasting brain illness where the brain's white tissue becomes inflamed and scarred, often after measles.