NEURITIS
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
• NEURITIS (noun)
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)
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