polyneuritis
- n inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)
- He observed too that fowls suffered from an analogous polyneuritis and were feeding largely on polished rice.
- When the pigeons got the coating they thrived; when they did not they suffered from polyneuritis.
- Other names: Landry's paralysis, infectious (or postinfectious) polyneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis, and even encephalo-myeloradiculoneuritis.