polyneuritis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmultiple neuritis

   Broaderneuritis

   NarrowerGuillain-Barre syndrome

Other forms of polyneuritis

plural

polyneuritises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about polyneuritis

What does polyneuritis mean?

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

How many syllables are in polyneuritis?

polyneuritis has 6 syllables: po-ly-ne-u-ri-tis. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for polyneuritis?

Close synonyms include multiple neuritis. 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 polyneuritis a common word?

polyneuritis 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.