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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phrenitis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Pinel is the last author who mentions phrenitis in a classification of diseases.
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The term phrenitis was employed in ancient Greece by Hippocrates and his followers.
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The ancient phrenitis concept was used until the 19th century.
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Phrenitis means an inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium.
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Phrenitis is no longer in scientific use.
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By their epigonic character the detailed descriptions of phrenitis by Gerard van Swieten mark only the end of an uncritical use of the term.
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