Definitions for phrenitis

phrenitis phre·ni·tis

Spelling: [fri-nahy-tis]
IPA: /frɪˈnaɪ tɪs/

Phrenitis is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in phrenitis (ehiinprst).

Definitions for phrenitis

noun

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

Origin of phrenitis

1615-25; Late Latin phrenītis delirium, frenzy Greek phrenîtis. See phren-, -itis

Examples for phrenitis

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

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

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

And since the membranes about the wound began to be inflamed, he fell a victim to phrenitis and died not long afterwards.

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

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

In no malady does a horse suffer more than in phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain.

She was in the first stages of phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain.

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