Medical Definition of Chronic cholecystitis

1. most common form of gallbladder inflammation, gallstones, gallbladder wall thickening, small gallbladder hepatobiliary scan: normal gall bladder visualization in most patients, delayed gall bladder visualization; visualization of bowel before gall bladder (sensitivity 45%, specificity 90%), noncontractility/decreased response after CCK (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronic Cholecystitis

chronic active liver disease
chronic adrenocortical insufficiency
chronic alcoholism
chronic anaphylaxis
chronic anterior poliomyelitis
chronic appendicitis
chronic ataxia
chronic atrophic polychondritis
chronic atrophic thyroiditis
chronic bacillary diarrhoea
chronic bronchitis
chronic cellular dehydration
chronic cholecystitis (current term)
chronic cicatrizing enteritis
chronic conjunctivitis
chronic constrictive pericarditis
chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis
chronic cystic mastitis
chronic desquamative gingivitis
chronic diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis
chronic discoid lupus erythematosus
chronic disease
chronic dysentery of cattle
chronic eczema
chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
chronic familial icterus
chronic familial jaundice

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