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Definition: Phrenitis |
PhrenitisNoun1. Inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Phrenitis \Phre*ni"tis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from,]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PhrenitisSynonyms: cephalitis (n), encephalitis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Phrenitis |
| English words defined with "phrenitis": -itis ♦ Phrenetical. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "phrenitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | phrenitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | frenitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Phrenitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | φρενίτισ, φρενίτις, φρενίτιδα (frenzy), εγκεφαλίτις (encephalitis), διαφραγματίτις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | frenite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enitisphray frenite, frenesi (frenzy, furor, furore, furze, rave, raving), frênico. (various references) frenitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "phrenitis" (pronounced 'Phre*ni"tis'): Adenitis, Aortitis, Appendicitis, Arachnitis, Arteritis, Arthritis, Arthrochondritis, Blepharitis, Bronchitis, Bursitis, Capsulitis, Carditis, Cellulitis, Cerebritis, Cholecystis, Chondritis, Colitis, Colonitis, Compos-mentis, Conjunctivitis, Cystitis, Dactylitis, Fetis, gastritis, Gastroduodenitis, gastroenteritis, Glossitis, Glottis, Gratis, hepatitis, iritis, keratitis, laminitis, laryngitis, leptomeningitis, lymphadenitis, Lymphangeitis, Macrocystis, mantis, mastitis, meningitis, Mephitis, metritis, Myelitis, myocarditis, Myositis, Myosotis, Nephritis, Nereocystis, Neuritis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nephritis. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: inherits, pristine. | |
-2 letters: hinters, hipster, inherit, inspire, piniest, pinites, pithier, pitiers, pterins, shinier, spinier, tiepins, tipsier. | |
-3 letters: esprit, estrin, hinter, inerts, insert, instep, inters, niters, nitres, perish, pinier, pinite, pitier, pities, priest, prints, pterin, repins, reship, ripens, ripest, seniti, shiner, shrine, sinter, sniper, spinet, spirit, sprent, sprint, sprite, stripe, theins, theirs, thrips, tiepin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: internship. | |
+2 letters: internships, interparish, nephritides, sphincteric, spinsterish, traineeship, tribuneship, xiphisterna. | |
+3 letters: interpsychic, listenership, prehensility, prehistorian, relationship, traineeships, tribuneships, xiphisternum. | |
+4 letters: antiphonaries, azathioprines, chemisorption, containership, guttersnipish, hypersalinity, inspectorship, iontophoresis, listenerships, misanthropies, pharyngitides, photofinisher, prehistorians, presidentship, relationships, retinopathies, rhinoplasties, sprightliness, trephinations. | |
+5 letters: actinomorphies, antiapartheids, anticensorship, apprenticeship, chemisorptions, containerships, dinitrophenols, dryopithecines, hypersensitive, hypersensitize, impoverishment, inspectorships, parenthesizing, philanthropies, photofinishers, prehensilities, presidentships, prizefightings, pyelonephritis, pyrimethamines, scintigraphies, spinthariscope, streptothricin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 72 65 6E 69 74 69 73 |
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