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