Medical Definition of Caecitis
1. Inflammation of the caecum. Synonym: typhlenteritis, typhlitis, typhloenteritis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caecitis
Literary usage of Caecitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harveian Lectures on the Mode of Death from Acute Intestinal Strangulation by Thomas Bryant (1885)
"Chronic caecitis, or typhlitis, is not likely to be mistaken for ... I have before
me the notes of nine fatal cases of caecitis, and propose to give you ..."
2. On diseases of the vermiform appendix: With a Consideration of the Symptoms by Herbert P. Hawkins (1895)
"The words " typhlitis," " caecitis," are of course inexcusable, save in the mouth
of one who believes in an inflammation of the caecum. ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1889)
"Cases of true caecitis are met with clinically, and do not prove fatal. Pus may
penetrate the caecum from abscess elsewhere, as in the pelvis, ..."
4. Clinical medicine: Designed for the Use of Students and Practitioners of by Austin Flint (1879)
"There may be a fecal accumulation in connection with acute caecitis, ... for, if
the affection be simply acute caecitis, the local and general symptoms may ..."
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