Meaning of "phrenitis" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHRENITIS

Via Late Latin from Greek: delirium, from phrēn mind, diaphragm +-itis.

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHRENITIS

phrenitis  [frɪˈnaɪtɪs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHRENITIS

Phrenitis is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHRENITIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phrenitis

The term phrenitis was employed in ancient Greece by Hippocrates and his followers. It refers to acute inflammation of mind and body, not in a theoretical but in a descriptive sense. Its presumed seat was never anatomically or conceptually well determined. The diagnosis was used during the Middle Ages: a mental confusion or continuous delirium with fever. Phrenitis means an inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium. Symptoms vary widely in severity, from short-lived, relatively slight effects of headache, drowsiness, and fever to paralysis, coma, and death. The ancient phrenitis concept was used until the 19th century. After that time the concept was replaced by the word delirium. By their epigonic character the detailed descriptions of phrenitis by Gerard van Swieten mark only the end of an uncritical use of the term. The epoch-making work of Morgagni, based on clinical-anatomical observations, provides a definitive insight into the location of the condition and into many pathologic features. Pinel is the last author who mentions phrenitis in a classification of diseases. Phrenitis is no longer in scientific use.

Definition of phrenitis in the English dictionary

The definition of phrenitis in the dictionary is a state of frenzy; delirium.

TRANSLATION OF PHRENITIS

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• Translator English - Chinese: 谵妄
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHRENITIS»

Discover the use of phrenitis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phrenitis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Edinburgh practice of physic and surgery: preceded by an ...

Phrenitis vera, Sauv. fp. I. Boerb. 771. Phrenitis idiopathica, Junck. 63. Cephalalgia inflatnmatoria, Sauv. Ip, 9. Cephalitis spontanea, Sauv. sp. 3. Cephalitis siriasis, Sauv. fp. 4. ' □ Siriasis, fog. 34. Cqihalitis Littriana, Sauv. fp. 5. Dr. Cullen ...

‎1800

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...

310. Sphacclismus, Lin. 32. Phrenitis vera, Saín: sp. I. BoerA. 771. Phrenitis idiopathica, Juuck. 63. Ccphalalgia inflammatoria, Sain: sp. 9. Cephalitis spontanea, Sain: sp. 3. Cephalitis siriasis, Sauv. sp. 4. • Siriasis, Fog. 34. Cephalitis Littriana ...

‎1823

The Edinburgh Practice of Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery: ...

Junck. 63. Phrenifmus, Vog. 45. Cephalitis, Sauv. gen. 109. Sag. gen. 310. Sphacelifmus, Lin, 32. Phrenitis vera, Sauv. fp. i. Boerb. 771. Phrenitis idiopathica , Junck. 63. Cephalalgia inflammatoria, Sauv. fp. 9, . Cephalitis fpontanea, Sauv. fp. 3.

William Cullen, 1803

Three Treatises on the Nature of Science

Since this is the case, it is therefore necessary for the origin of the burning fever and its accompanying symptoms to come first, after which phrenitis follows, then comes the upward attraction of the regions of the cartilages and the phrenitis is ...

Galen, R. Walzer, M. Frede, 1985

Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. ...

As the organs of sense are not frequently deranged in synocha, the foregoing symptoms farther assist the diagnosis between this complaint and phrenitis. The pulse is not always so much disturbed •t an early period, as we should expect from ...

John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, 1813

Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 1, General Psychopathology

Galen's other principal diagnostic category was phrenitis, an acute, febrile condition which involved agitation and delirium. Historians have found what they believe to be meningitis, malaria, and typhoid among Galen's case histories of ...

M. Shepherd, O. L. Zangwill, 1983

Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Comprehending a Complete ...

As the organs of sense are not frequently deranged in synocha, the foregoing symptoms farther assist the diagnosis between this complaint and phrenitis. The pulse is not always so much disturbed at an early period, as we should expect from ...

John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, 1813

Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal

Case of apparently Idiopathic Phrenitis. By Robert Paley, M. D. Halifax. Communicated to Dr Bateman. * My Dear Sir, You may probably recollect, whilst I had the honour to be your colleague at the Public Dispensary, that I mentioned having ...

‎1819

The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...

Thus it is that phrenitis assumes so much the appearance of simple fever; but, on a closer view, we still find an essential diiference between these diseases. Phrenitis is, in every respect, except the universality of the symptoms produced by the ...

‎1808

The London Medical Gazette

To distinguish it from phrenitis is more difficult; as inflammation of the brain, however, generally appears sooner after labour than true mania, the period of the attack will in some degree guide us. The delirium attendant on phrenitis is preceded ...

‎1835

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHRENITIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term phrenitis is used in the context of the following news items.

The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

But though his death certificate listed the cause of death as phrenitis, or swelling of the brain, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his ... «Smithsonian, Oct 14»

Professor Probes Mental Disorders in the Ancient World

For example, the word “phrenitis” appears in ancient texts to describe illness characterized by delirium, fever and death. Today, some scholars ... «Record - Columbia News, Dec 13»

Ancient Greece and Mental Disorders

Continuing, he gave the example of the word “phrenitis” that was used to describe a state of delirium, fever and eventually death, or as we call it ... «Greek Reporter, Dec 13»

Candied Corpses, And 87 Other Ancient Innovations

(Like so much else, Greeks invented frenzy and its spinoff, frenetic; they come from phrenitis, "madness" or "delirium of the brain.") Born around ... «NPR, Aug 10»