Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phrenitis

1 sense of phrenitis

Sense 1
encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis -- (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))
       => inflammation, redness, rubor -- (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)