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Definition of Esophagitis
1. Noun. Inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux.
Definition of Esophagitis
1. Noun. The inflammation of the oesophagus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Esophagitis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Esophagitis
Literary usage of Esophagitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Acute corrosive esophagitis is due to the swallowing of corrosive poisons, ...
In croup- ous esophagitis, the cause is to be sought in (1) a direct ..."
2. The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Disease: Designed for the Use of by Frederick Forchheimer (1910)
"E. DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS I. esophagitis The diagnosis of esophagitis is very
difficult, the therapy very unsatisfactory. In the catarrhal form its ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(a) Catarrhal esophagitis i. Acute.—The acute catarrhal inflammation of the
esophagus is usually so mild as to give rise to no symptoms. ..."
4. Diseases of the digestive organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"Acute esophagitis.—Simple acute catarrhal inflammation of the esophagus is caused
by mechanical, chemical and thermic irritations. ..."
5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1917)
"ACUTE esophagitis Tt is quite remarkable, considering the frequency of pathological
processes in the pharynx, that these so rarely extend to the esophagus. ..."
6. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, N. B. Delamater (1901)
"Etiology—esophagitis is a comparatively rare affection, and usually exists ...
Chronic esophagitis differs but little from the acute form, and may follow it ..."
7. Practice of Medicine by Walter Sands Mills (1915)
"Definition: esophagitis is inflammation of the esophagus. It may be acute or chronic;
... Etiology: esophagitis may be part of an acute infection. ..."
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