Phrenitis

//fɹəˈnaɪtəs// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; encephalitis, encephalomeningitis, or meningitis. countable, historical, uncountable

    "Phrenitis, which the Greeks derive from the word φρήν, is a disease of the mind, with a continual madness or dotage […]."

  2. 2
    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) wordnet

Etymology

From Latin phrenītis, from Ancient Greek φρενῖτις (phrenîtis), from φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”).

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