| neuritis | <clinical sign> Inflammation of a nerve, a condition attended by pain and tenderness over the nerves, anaesthesia and paraesthesias, paralysis, wasting and disappearance of the reflexes. In practice, the term is also used to denote noninflammatory lesions of the peripheral nervous system. If the involvement is in one nerve it is called mononeuritis, in several nerves, mononeuritis multiplex, if diffuse and bilateral, polyneuritis. See: neuropathy. (16 Dec 1997) |
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| neuritis, experimental allergic | An autoimmune demyelinating disorder of peripheral nerves produced by injection of peripheral nerve tissue protein. (12 Dec 1998) |
| suboccipital neuritis | See: posttraumatic neck syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| descending neuritis | Inflammation progressing downward along a nerve trunk in a direction toward the periphery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| interstitial neuritis | Inflammation of the connective tissue framework of a nerve. Synonym: Eichhorst's neuritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intraocular neuritis | Inflammation of the retinal portion of the optic nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occipital neuritis | See: posttraumatic neck syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic neuritis | <pathology> Inflammation of the optic nerve. This may occur secondary to a wide variety of causes: multiple sclerosis, posterior uveitis, vascular lesions of the optic nerve (interruption of blood supply to the optic nerve), temporal arteritis, central retinal artery occlusion, methyl alcohol poisoning, drug side effects and acute demyelinative disease of the optic nerves (destruction of optic nerve sheath). (27 Sep 1997) |
| Eichhorst's neuritis | Inflammation of the connective tissue framework of a nerve. Synonym: Eichhorst's neuritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| toxic neuritis | Neuritis caused by an endogenous or exogenous toxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| traumatic neuritis | Nerve lesion following an injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fallopian neuritis | Paralysis of the facial muscles, usually unilateral, due to either a lesion involving the nucleus or the facial nerve peripheral to the nucleus (peripheral facial paralysis) or a supranuclear lesion in the cerebrum or upper brainstem (central facial paralysis). With latter, facial weakness is usually partial and the upper portion of the face is relatively spared, due to bilateral cortical connections. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Leyden's neuritis | Fatty degeneration of the fibres of the affected nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |