neuritis

English

Etymology

From 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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神經炎／神经炎 (zh) (shénjīngyán)

• Czech: neuritida (cs) f
• Dutch: neuritis (nl)
• Finnish: hermotulehdus (fi), neuriitti (fi), neuritis (fi)
• Galician: neurite (gl) f
• Hungarian: ideggyulladás (hu)
• Ido: nevrito (io)
• Japanese: 神経炎 (しんけいえん, shinkeien)
• Russian: неври́т (ru) m (nevrít)
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28