Inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function

Usage examples of neuritis.

The patient suffers severely from neuritis, and there may be early loss of patellar reflex.

Persons using these preparations may suffer from catarrhal symptoms, rashes on the neck, ears, and face, thirst, nausea, pain in stomach, vomiting, headache, perhaps peripheral neuritis and loss of patellar reflex.

The symptoms then are mainly those of peripheral neuritis with blindness.

He suffered fracture of the base of the skull, of the bones of the face, and of the left ulna, and although suppuration at the points of fracture ensued, followed by an optic neuritis, an ultimate recovery was effected.

There were no signs whatever of a multiple neuritis nor of a leprous condition.

Bielschowsky records the case of a man with peripheral neuritis, in whom white spots appeared at the lower part of the finger-nails, grew rapidly, and in three weeks coalesced into a band across each nail a millimeter wide.

He had to do everything--with his hands, crippled with the neuritis he had back in Willow Corners.

Each recollection, rising from the buried past, reawakened the dull, sad ache in his hands, the after-image of the neuritis from which he had suffered after he had lost his money.

She did authorize me to inform you that she is currently suffering an acute condition called a bilateral optic neuritis, which I am treating with intravenous medication.

This is her first episode of retrobulbar neuritis, resulting in total blindness.

It was bout that time that my present spinal neuritis began to develop - which made the excuse a pretty good one.

I was laid up with some of my neuritis, but had managed to get downstairs and stretch out on the front parlour sofa near the long window.

Frances is to come with me, and all the doctors in creation tell her she can only get rid of her neuritis if she goes to some such place and misses part of an English winter.

And what curious diseases he discusses, no case of which has ever come my way -- such arcane ills as saturnine neuritis, rice-water stools, and scrivener's palsy.

This unedifying observation started a long series of investigations ending in the discovery that while genuine port wine has practically no anti-neuralgic properties, the cheap stuff faked to resemble tawny port by the addition of elderberry juice often banishes the pain of sciatica and other forms of neuralgia, though of no avail in genuine neuritis.