multiple neuritis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspolyneuritis

   Broaderneuritis

   NarrowerGuillain-Barre syndrome

Questions about multiple neuritis

What does multiple neuritis mean?

multiple neuritis means "inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)".

What is another word for multiple neuritis?

Close synonyms include polyneuritis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is multiple neuritis a common word?

multiple neuritis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.