Origin: Greek suffix -itis
Leukoencephalitis has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
inflammation of the white matter of the brain
An epizootic disease of horses, characterized by drowsiness, imperfect vision, partial paralysis of the throat, twitching of the muscles of the shoulder, unsteady gait, and softening of the white substance of the frontal lobes; forage poisoning.