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Meningitis vs Phrenitis - What's the difference?

meningitis | phrenitis |

As nouns the difference between meningitis and phrenitis

is that meningitis is (pathology) inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia while phrenitis is (historical|medicine) madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.

meningitis

English

Noun

(meningitides)
  • (pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

    • Derived terms

    * meningitic * meningism

    phrenitis

    English

    Noun

    (phrenitides)
  • (historical, medicine) Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.
  • *, Book I, New York 2001, p.140:
    • Phrenitis , which the Greeks derive from the word , is a disease of the mind, with a continual madness or dotage […].

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