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Phrenitis vs Phrenesis - What's the difference?

phrenitis | phrenesis |

As nouns the difference between phrenitis and phrenesis

is that phrenitis is madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis while phrenesis is phrenitis.

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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    phrenesis

    English

    Noun

    (phreneses)
  • (obsolete, medicine) phrenitis
  • madness, frenzy

    • Quotations

    * "Before the Armada, the Army of Flanders had experienced its share of mutinies or 'furies'--as the ravages of licentious soldiery were called when the phrenesis of indiscipline came over them" - Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada, the Experience of War in 1588, (Oxford, 1988).

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