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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, inflammation of the brain or its membranes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Same as phrenitis.

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  • noun medicine phrenitis

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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)

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