单词 | phrenitis |
释义 | phrenitisn. Medicine. Now historical. Delirium, esp. when associated with or attributed to inflammation of the brain; inflammation of the brain or of the meninges, encephalitis or meningitis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain phrenesisa1529 siriasis1601 phrenitis1621 brain fever1772 phrenicula1793 cephalitis1811 cerebritis1866 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. i. iv. 12 Phrenitis,..is a Disease of the Minde, with a continuall Madnesse or Dotage,..or els an inflammation of the Braine. a1638 J. Mede Diatribae (1642) 86 One, ex vi morbi, that, namely, which is with or from a Fever, called Delirium, or Phrenitis (the latter being a higher degree then the former;). 1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies iii. 28 Oftentimes the matter,..being discharged upon some internal parts of the Head, produces a Delirium or Phrenitis. 1710 J. Floyer Pulse Watch II. 6 Phrenitis, the Circulation is small, quick and frequent, with an obstruction of the Arteries of the Brain, by the sizy and bilious Serum. 1752 J. Pringle Observ. Dis. Army ii. 163 The phrenitis, or inflammation of the membranes of the brain, considered as an original inflammation, is properly a summer disease. 1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. §286 In the Nosology I have added the typhomania to the character of Phrenitis. 1788 Med. Communications 2 173 Phrenitis, Pleuritis, Hepatitis, Nephritis. 1801 E. Darwin Zoonomia III. 210 Head-achs, which are attended with inflammation, are termed phrenitis. 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 167 This word [sc. cephalitis] is preferred to phrenitis, as more descriptive of the organ affected. 1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. iii. ii. 228 His wife, who had long been the victim of low spirits, was seized..with fever, epilepsy, and phrenitis. 1877 Spirit of Times 15 Dec. 523/1 The causes are supposed to be the same as those occasioning phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality i. 13 He [sc. Hippocrates] distinguishes between mania, melancolia, and phrenitis, which latter term among the ancients seems generally to have stood for a transient disturbance of the reason in connection with feverish diseases. 1969 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 89 98 Asclepiades..condemned bleeding of those suffering from phrenitis. 2000 Lancet 2 Dec. 1936/2 A Victorian subdivision, phrenitis potatorum, the phrenitis of drunkards (also called delirium tremens in 1813 by Thomas Sutter, who distinguished it from phrenitis proper). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621 |
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