neuritis
Noun
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Inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function (synset 114374242)
is a type of: inflammation, redness, rubor - a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heatsubtypes:
- 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
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