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UK
/njuːɹˈaɪtɪs/
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NOUN
- inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function
How To Use neuritis In A Sentence
- I know I had diabetes, meningitis and acute ingestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis.
- Today, I dunno, maybe the transient thought of an ex provoked acute headache, neuritis, and neuralgia, and you drove by him. Stephen J. Gertz: You Will Be Devoured by Seven Horrible Demons
- He had a few songwriting successes as a young man, but he didn't make composition a central wage-earning activity until 1919, when neuritis made it difficult for him to continue playing the viola professionally.
- Similarly, the influenza virus vaccine very likely causes polyneuritis again at a similar low rate.
- Doctors in Australia, England, and Germany were seeing not only peripheral neuritis, but something much more disturbing in the offspring of their thalidomide patients: a sudden increase in cases of phocomelia, a birth defect in which limbs fail to develop, and which leaves infants with hands and feet growing directly from their shoulders and hips. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- Ocular disease occurs in 70% of patients, leading to lid retraction, ptosis, keratitis, sclcritis, uveitis, glaucoma, palsy, neuritis, and blindness.
- Once we arrived at the permanent camp I developed diphtheria, which as a result of malnutrition turned into polyneuritis, which is total paralysis. Robert Cunliffe
- This set of symptoms he called polyneuritis and this term is now commonly used to signify a beri-beri in experimental animals. The Vitamine Manual
- Holst suffered from poor eyesight and neuritis in his arm, and his health was further affected by a fall in 1923.
- Some of the chicks that he was using developed a characteristic leg weakness (polyneuritis), but only, he discovered, when they were being fed on cooked white rice left over from the hospitalized soldiers 'meals. The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins