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MULTIPLE NEURITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)
Synonyms:
multiple neuritis; polyneuritis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("multiple neuritis" is a kind of...):
neuritis (inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multiple neuritis"):
Guillain-Barre syndrome; infectious polyneuritis; Landry's paralysis (a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown)