phrenitis
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /fɹəˈnʌɪtɪs/
  • (America) IPA: /fɹəˈnaɪdəs/
Noun

phrenitis

  1. (historical, medicine) Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:
      , Book I, New York 2001, p.140:
      Phrenitis, which the Greeks derive from the word φρήν, is a disease of the mind, with a continual madness or dotage […].



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