Definition of "phrenitis" []

• Inflammation of the diaphragm. (noun)
• Encephalitis. No longer in scientific use. (noun)

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• "And many were attacked with impairment or loss of speech; at first, those in the commencement of phthisis, but also persons in ardent fever and in phrenitis."
• "It is probable that the death of the patient on the fifth day is to be attributed to a phrenitis, with unfavorable evacuations."
• "The patient affected with phrenitis, having taken to bed on the first day, vomited largely of verdigris-green and thin matters; fever, accompanied with rigors, copious and continued sweats all over; heaviness of the head and neck, with pain; urine thin, substances floating in the urine small, scattered, did not subside; had copious dejections from the bowels; very delirious; no sleep."