English dictionary
phrenitis
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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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)
Source: WordNet 3.0
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Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also <i>cephalitis</i>.
Source: webster1913