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Phrenitis
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What's The Definition Of Phrenitis?
[n] 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)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Phrenitis: cephalitis | encephalitis Related Terms | Find terms related to Phrenitis: See Also | acute hemorrhagic encephalitis | acute inclusion body encephalitis | encephalitis lethargica | epidemic encephalitis | equine encephalitis | equine encephalomyelitis | herpes encephalitis | herpes simplex encephalitis | inflammation | lethargic encephalitis | leukoencephalitis | panencephalitis | redness | rubor | sleeping sickness | sleepy sickness Phrenitis In Webster's Dictionary \Phre*ni"tis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?.]
1. (Med.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of
the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; --
called also {cephalitis}.
2. See {Frenzy}.
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