phrenitis – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
phrenitis
n.
inflammation of the diaphragm (Medicine); former name of encephalitis, inflammation of the brain (Pathology); frenzy, delirium, madness
Phrenitis
The term
phrenitis was employed in ancient Greece by
Hippocrates and his followers. It refers to acute inflammation of mind and body, not in a theoretical but in a descriptive sense. Its presumed seat was never anatomically or conceptually well determined. The diagnosis was used during the
Middle Ages: a mental confusion or continuous
delirium with
fever.
phrenitis
Noun
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)
(synonym) encephalitis, cephalitis
(hypernym) inflammation, redness, rubor
(hyponym) acute hemorrhagic encephalitis
Phrenitis
(n.)
See Frenzy.
(n.)
Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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phrenitis
n.
ديوانگي, سودا, آماس دماغ, سرسام, خلل دماغ, جنون
