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Definition of Appendicitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Definition of Appendicitis

1. n. Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Definition of Appendicitis

1. Noun. (pathology) inflammation of the vermiform appendix ¹

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Definition of Appendicitis

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Medical Definition of Appendicitis

1. Inflammation (and usually infection) of the appendix, a finger-like projection of the first portion of the colon, that often causes right, lower quadrant abdominal pain, fever and loss of appetite. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Appendicitis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"From the Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, Illinois) (WITH PLATES 12 TO 16) The causes of appendicitis, exclusive of foreign bodies ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Chir., 1907, xviii, 408) says that if we study many cases of acute appendicitis originating, apparently suddenly and violently, with startling and sudden ..."

3. Digestive Diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact edited by James E. Everhart (1995)
"The proportion of all hospitalizations because of appendicitis for whites, ... Of 1638 cases of acute appendicitis among the total population treated at all ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"Appendicitis. Inflammation of the vermiform appendix is the most important of acute intestinal disorders. Formerly the " iliac phlegmon " was thought to be ..."

5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"The diagnosis was that of recurrent appendicitis with great thickening and ... In other words, there had been several attacks of acute appendicitis with ..."

6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"OPERATIVE DETAILS IN Appendicitis. cer upon the edge of the nostril was ... Appendicitis is always appendicitis; the diagnosis as such is made or not made; ..."

7. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders (1905)
"This affection simulates appendicitis with generalized peritonitis. But the deep-seated epigastric pain, followed by circumscribed resistance in the same ..."

8. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"CASE I.—-A physician telegraphed me that he had a case of appendicitis of two ... Appendicitis with perforating ulcer of caecum; multiple pus-pockets; ..."

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