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MULTIPLE NEURITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multiple neuritis mean? 

MULTIPLE NEURITIS (noun)
  The noun MULTIPLE NEURITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)play

  Familiarity information: MULTIPLE NEURITIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MULTIPLE NEURITIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

multiple neuritis; polyneuritis

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)


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