POLYNEURITIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)

Synonyms:

multiple neuritis; polyneuritis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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)