phrenitis
/fri-nahy-tis/US // frɪˈnaɪ tɪs //UK // (frɪˈnaɪtɪs) //
膈肌炎,肾炎,肾盂炎,肾脏炎
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Pathology.
- : inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- : delirium; frenzy.
Examples
In the month of August the fevers with a stupor and phrenitis came on apace.
Many of these who had accustomed themselves to the liberal use of spirituous liquors miscarried in the phrenitis.
A horse laboring under an attack of phrenitis is as violent as a horse can be.
In pathology, a dread of air (wind); a common symptom in hydrophobia, and occasionally present in hysteria and phrenitis.
Would any rational practitioner, in a case of phrenitis, or in the delirium of fever, order his patient to be scourged?
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