NEURITIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("neuritis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuritis"):

multiple neuritis; polyneuritis (inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy))

retrobulbar neuritis (inflammation of the optic nerve behind the eye; common in multiple sclerosis)