phrenitis
Americannoun
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inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
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delirium; frenzy.
noun
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another name for encephalitis
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a state of frenzy; delirium
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of phrenitis
1615–25; < Late Latin phrenītis delirium, frenzy < Greek phrenîtis. See phren-, -itis
Example Sentences
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Jodocus Lommius differentiated between delirium, phrenitis, melancholia and mania and described a particular variety of this last form as hydrophobia.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
Thus Juvenal: Cum furor haud dubius, cum sit manifesta phrenitis, Ut locuples moriaris, egenti vivere fato!
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
"We shall have this fellow in phrenitis, or laryngitis, or dothenenteritis, or some other itis, before long, if he's aggravated."
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
The doctor who had been called in from outside named the disease phrenitis.
From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh
He found in his autopsy observations confirmation of this view and concludes that "madness is to phrenitis what pulmonary consumption is to pneumony, that is, a chronic state of an acute disease."
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
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