phrenitis

phrenitis is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
2. noun. See Frenzy.
3. noun. 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)

   Synonyms: cephalitis, encephalitis

Synonyms

cephalitis, encephalitis

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in phrenitis:

inspreith, nephritis

Words from these letters

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