neuritis

English

Etymology

neur- +‎ -itis

Noun

neuritis (countable and uncountable, plural neuritides or neuritises)

1. (neurology, pathology) Inflammation of one or more nerves.

   Optic neuritis (or retrobulbar neuritis) is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.

Derived terms

• endoneuritis
• mononeuritis
• neuritic
• optic neuritis
• polyneuritis
• pseudoneuritis
• radiculoneuritis
• radioneuritis

 

Related terms

• neurological
• neurologist
• neurology
• neuronitis

Translations

inflammation of nerves

• Bulgarian: възпаление на нерв n (vǎzpalenie na nerv)
• Catalan: neuritis f
• Czech: neuritida (cs) f
• Finnish: hermotulehdus (fi), neuriitti (fi), neuritis (fi)
• Galician: neurite (gl) f
• Hungarian: ideggyulladás (hu)
• Japanese: 神経炎 (しんけいえん, shinkeien)
• Spanish: neuritis (es) f

Catalan

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ -itis.

Noun

neuritis f (invariable)

1. (pathology) neuritis

Further reading

• “neuritis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Spanish

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neuˈɾitis/ [neu̯ˈɾi.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: neu‧ri‧tis

Noun

neuritis f (plural neuritis)

1. (pathology) neuritis

Further reading

• “neuritis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014