Associations to the word «Phrenitis»

Noun

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Wiktionary

PHRENITIS, noun. (historical) (medicine) Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.

Dictionary definition

PHRENITIS, noun. 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).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats