POLYNEURITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyneuritis mean? 

• POLYNEURITIS (noun)
  The noun POLYNEURITIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: POLYNEURITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYNEURITIS (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 ("polyneuritis" 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 "polyneuritis"):

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)

 Context examples 

A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) and characterized by polyneuritis, cardiac pathology, and edema.

(Beri Beri, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Also called: Acute idiopathic polyneuritis, Acute inflammatory polyneuropathy, Infectious polyneuritis, Landry-Guillain-Barre syndrome

(Guillain-Barre Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

The diphtheria toxin may cause myocarditis, polyneuritis, and other systemic effects.

(Diphtheria, NCI Thesaurus)

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN, produced by C. diphtheriae, can cause myocarditis, polyneuritis, and other systemic toxic effects.

(Diphtheria, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)