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neuritis
(inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function)
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polyneuritis
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multiple neuritis
(inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy))
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Guillain-Barre syndrome
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infectious polyneuritis
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Landry's paralysis
(a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown)
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retrobulbar neuritis
(inflammation of the optic nerve behind the eye; common in multiple sclerosis)
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