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NEURITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuritis mean? 

NEURITIS (noun)
  The noun NEURITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of functionplay

  Familiarity information: NEURITIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEURITIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("neuritis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuritis"):

multiple neuritis; polyneuritis (inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy))

retrobulbar neuritis (inflammation of the optic nerve behind the eye; common in multiple sclerosis)


 Context examples 


Also called: Neuritis, Peripheral neuritis, Peripheral neuropathy

(Peripheral Nerve Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Functional disturbance or pathological change in the peripheral nervous system; sometimes limited to noninflammatory lesions as opposed to those of neuritis; etiology may be known or unknown.

(Peripheral Sensory Neuropathy, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

An autoimmune inflammatory syndrome characterized by optic neuritis and myelitis.

(Neuromyelitis Optica, NCI Thesaurus)



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