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phrenitis

[ fri-nahy-tis ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
  2. delirium; frenzy.


phrenitis

/ frɪˈnɪtɪk; frɪˈnaɪtɪs /

noun

  1. another name for encephalitis
  2. a state of frenzy; delirium
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • phrenitic, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of phrenitis1

1615–25; < Late Latin phrenītis delirium, frenzy < Greek phrenîtis. See phren-, -itis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of phrenitis1

C17: via Late Latin from Greek: delirium, from phrēn mind, diaphragm + -itis
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Example Sentences

In the month of August the fevers with a stupor and phrenitis came on apace.

Many of these who had accustomed themselves to the liberal use of spirituous liquors miscarried in the phrenitis.

A horse laboring under an attack of phrenitis is as violent as a horse can be.

In pathology, a dread of air (wind); a common symptom in hydrophobia, and occasionally present in hysteria and phrenitis.

Would any rational practitioner, in a case of phrenitis, or in the delirium of fever, order his patient to be scourged?

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