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Definition of Phrenitis
1. Noun. Inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever ('phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use).
Generic synonyms: Inflammation, Redness, Rubor
Specialized synonyms: Acute Hemorrhagic Encephalitis, Equine Encephalitis, Equine Encephalomyelitis, Acute Inclusion Body Encephalitis, Herpes Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, Leukoencephalitis, Cerebromeningitis, Encephalomeningitis, Meningoencephalitis, Panencephalitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Epidemic Encephalitis, Lethargic Encephalitis, Sleeping Sickness, Sleepy Sickness, West Nile Encephalitis
Definition of Phrenitis
1. n. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
Definition of Phrenitis
1. Noun. (historical medicine) Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phrenitis
1. [n -TISES or -TIDES]
Medical Definition of Phrenitis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phrenitis
Literary usage of Phrenitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including the Various Species of Fever, and by Alexander Philip Wilson Philip (1813)
"IN temperate climates phrenitis is a rare ... It is in warm latitudes that
idiopathic phrenitis moft frequently occurs. ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1819)
"Case of apparently Idiopathic phrenitis. By ROBERT PAI.EY, MD Halifax. Communicated
to Dr BATEMAN. * MY DEAR SIR, You may probably recollect, ..."
3. The Horse, in the Stable and the Field: His Varieties, Management in Health by John Henry Walsh, James Irvine Lupton (1861)
"phrenitis seldom occurs, except in over-fed and lightly-worked horses, nor among
them is it by any means a common disease. The early symptoms are generally ..."
4. The Principles and practice of obstetrics by Gunning S. Bedford (1869)
"Puerperal Mania; Its Pathology—Is it a phrenitis, or is it essentially a Dises«
of Exhaustion and Irritation?—Opinions divided; Necroscopica! ..."
5. Medical Greek; Collection of Papers on Medical Onomatology and a Grammatical by Achilles Rose (1908)
"To quote: "phrenitis, or acute idiopathic inflammation of the brain or its membranes,
... The heading of this chapter is phrenitis and Hydrocephalus, ..."
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