Inflammation of one or several nerves. The cause may be mechanical, vascular, allergic, toxic, metabolic, or viral. Symptoms tingling, burning, or stabbing pains with sensory nerves and anything from muscle weakness to paralysis with motor nerves are usually confined to the part of the body served by the inflamed nerve. In Bell palsy, facial nerve inflammation causes a characteristic facial muscle distortion. Analgesics can relieve the pain. Once the underlying cause is treated, recovery is usually rapid but may be incomplete in severe cases, with residual motor and sensory disturbances. See also neuralgia
inflammation of the nerves, typically accompanied by symptoms of pain and tenderness
{i} (Neurology, Pathology) inflammation of the nerve (characterized by pain, paralysis, muscle atrophy, and loss of reflexes)
A disease of the peripheral nerves showing the pathological changes of inflammation The term is also used in a less precise sense as an alternative to neuropathy