Phrenitis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Inflammation of the diaphragm.
  • n. Encephalitis. No longer in scientific use.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
  • n. See Frenzy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In medicine, an inflammation of the brain or its meninges, attended with acute fever and delirium.
  • n. Delirium; frenzy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rubor    inflammation    redness   
    Variant
    cephalitis    frenzy