SSPE

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A form of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis — A fatal neurodegenerative disorder: a rare complication of measles that occurs some time after the illness itself.

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Dawson diseasesubacute sclerosing panencephalitisinclusion body encephalitissubacute inclusion body encephalitissclerosing leukoencephalitissubacute sclerosing leukoencephalitisBosin's diseaseDawson's encephalitis
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Meanings

nounSSPE (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablebiologyInitialism of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

    Synonyms: Dawson disease

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

nouna 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

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subacute sclerosing panencephalitisinclusion body encephalitissubacute inclusion body encephalitissclerosing leukoencephalitissubacute sclerosing leukoencephalitisBosin's diseaseDawson's encephalitisVan Bogaert encephalitis
Broader
panencephalitis
Also see
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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