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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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