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Definition of Glossitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the tongue.

Definition of Glossitis

1. n. Inflammation of the tongue.

Definition of Glossitis

1. Noun. (medicine) An inflammatory condition of the tongue. ¹

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Definition of Glossitis

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Medical Definition of Glossitis

1. Inflammation of the tongue. (14 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glossitis

Literary usage of Glossitis

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

1. A Treatise on the practice of medicine: For the Use of Students and by Roberts Bartholow (1883)
"Glossitis. Definition.— Glossitis is a term that signifies inflammation of the tongue. As usually one half of the organ is involved, the malady is sometimes ..."

2. Diseases of the Tongue by Henry Trentham Butlin, Walter George Spencer (1900)
"Clinical Description of Acute Glossitis. Acute inflammation of the tongue is admitted by all observers to be a rare disease. Even the largest hospitals in ..."

3. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1885)
"stomatitis and with other affections, and which implicate the mucous membrane and its glands and papillas only (superficial glossitis). ..."

4. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"In most cases of glossitis an exudation is deposited between the muscular ... Acute parenchymatous glossitis is a rare affection, it is only induced by ..."

5. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"In most cases of glossitis an exudation is deposited between the muscular ... Acute parenchymatous glossitis is a rare affection, it is only induced by ..."

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