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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 function
Familiarity information: NEURITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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