polyneuritis

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1. inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy) (noun.state)

hypernym	:	neuritis,
definition	:	inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function (noun.state)

hyponym	:	guillain-barre syndrome, infectious polyneuritis, landry's paralysis,
definition	:	a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown (noun.state)