Neuritis
/njʊəˈraɪtɪs/noun
Inflammation of a nerve or nerves.
Did you know?Neuritis is built from Greek neuron, a word that originally meant “sinew” or “tendon” before it became the name for nerves, showing how early medicine imagined the body as a web of tense cords.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
νεῦρον (neûron)
“sinew, tendon; later, nerve”
Late Latin
Latin
neuritis
“inflammation of a nerve”
19th Century
English
neuritis
“medical term for inflammation of a nerve or nerves”
Modern English
English
neuritis
“inflammation of a nerve or nerves”