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
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Etymology
Origin of phrenitis
1615–25; < Late Latin phrenītis delirium, frenzy < Greek phrenîtis. See phren-, -itis
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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.
The doctor who had been called in from outside named the disease phrenitis.
From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh
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
Alexander has much to say with regard to phrenitis, a febrile condition complicated by delirium, which, following Galen, he considers an affection of the brain.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph
Cum furor haud dubius, cum sit manifesta phrenitis, Ut locuples moriaris, egenti vivere fato.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus
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