arachnoiditisn.
Pathology.
Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane. Also in less correct form arachˈnitis.
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arachnoiditis1827
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1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) i. i. 71 I have witnessed the supervention of peritonitis, severe dysentery, and arachnitis, to fluxes suppressed by the use of hot wine and spices.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 69 I have witnessed the supervention of peritonitis, severe dysentery, and arachnitis, to fluxes suppressed by the use of hot wine and spices.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Arachnitis or Arachnoiditis, inflammation of the Arachnoid.
1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 85/1 Arachnitis, more properly Arachnoïditis.
1910 Practitioner July 48 Sometimes the effusion is localised and secondary to atrophy of the convolutions, and sometimes it may be general and due to serous arachnoiditis (Meningitis serosa externa).
1961 Lancet 22 July 178/1 Spinal arachnoiditis, and weakness in the legs were noted.
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