Definition of Endarteritis

1. Noun. Inflammation of the inner lining of an artery.

Generic synonyms: Inflammation, Redness, Rubor

Definition of Endarteritis

1. Noun. (pathology) inflammation of the inner lining (''tunica intima'') of an artery ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Endarteritis

1. Chronic inflammation of the arterial intima, often a late result of syphilis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endarteritis

endarchy
endark
endarked
endarken
endarkened
endarkening
endarkens
endarking
endarks
endart
endarted
endarterectomies
endarterectomy
endarteria
endarteriectomy
endarteritis (current term)
endarteritis deformans
endarteritis obliterans
endarteritis proliferans
endarterium
endarting
endarts
endash
endashes
endaspidean
endaunger
endaural
endaural incision
endazzle
endazzled

Literary usage of Endarteritis

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

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"He had noted as quite characteristic of specific cerebral endarteritis extreme dullness and stupidity. ..."

2. A Manual of Pathological Histology by Victor Cornil (1880)
"179. as a foreign body, occasioning around it a vegetating endarteritis, forming thus ... endarteritis, consecutive to the obstruction of an artery and the ..."

3. The Origin of disease: Especially of Disease Resulting from Intrinsic as by Arthur Vincent Meigs (1899)
"Obliterative endarteritis (Moderate Thickening of Intima) 38 2. Obliterative endarteritis (Great Thickening of Intima) 38 3. Obliterative endarteritis ..."

4. Differential diagnosis and treatment of disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1905)
"Cerebral syphilis includes syphilitic endarteritis, syphilitic meningo- ... SYPHILITIC endarteritis Syphilitic endarteritis is one of the simplest forms of ..."

5. A Text-book of practical medicine: Designed for the Use of Students and by Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1892)
"Under this head will be considered the following diseases of the arteries and veins. DISEASES OF THE ARTERIES. I. Acute endarteritis. ..."

6. A Manual of the practice of medicine by George Roe Lockwood (1895)
"Cerebral endarteritis usually occurs in males, and is a disease of middle and ... The pathology is that of endarteritis (see Arterio-cap- illary Fibrosis). ..."

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