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
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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
"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
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
The pulpit of the Parish Church will stand for ever before he upsets it, and he will never approach that altitude of polemical phrenitis which will induce him to smash any part of it.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
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.
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