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brain fever
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See also: brain-fever
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Noun
brain fever (countable and uncountable, plural brain fevers)
- (pathology, dated) encephalitis or meningitis
- (dated) A state of hysteria or temporary insanity caused by an emotional shock.
- 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box:
- We found that the news of the arrival of the packet—for her illness dated from that time—had such an effect upon her as to bring on brain fever.
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