phrenitis

Noun
Synonyms: encephalitiscephalitis

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. 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: encephalitiscephalitis
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Phrenitis \Phre*ni"tis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. freni^tis, fr. frh`n, freno`s.]

1.(Med.) Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis. [1913 Webster]

2.See Frenzy. [1913 Webster]

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