neuritis

Definitions of neuritis

1. noun

   inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function
   types:

   multiple neuritis, polyneuritis

   inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)

   retrobulbar neuritis

   inflammation of the optic nerve behind the eye; common in multiple sclerosis

   Guillain-Barre syndrome, Landry's paralysis, infectious polyneuritis

   a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown

   type of:

   inflammation, redness, rubor

   a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat