APPENDICITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appendicitis mean? 

• APPENDICITIS (noun)
  The noun APPENDICITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the vermiform appendix

  Familiarity information: APPENDICITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPENDICITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the vermiform appendix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("appendicitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

 Context examples 

Clinically, it may present as an abdominal mass or with symptoms of acute appendicitis.

(Appendix Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

B. wadsworthia are pleomorphic rods with swollen ends and is associated with appendicitis.

(Bilophila wadsworthia, NCI Thesaurus)

B. agrestis is commensal in the throat and pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals with wound infections or appendicitis.

(Buttiauxella agrestis, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include acute appendicitis, colitis, and inflammatory bowel disease.

(Non-Neoplastic Intestinal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Anyone can get appendicitis, but it is more common among people 10 and 30 years old.

(Appendicitis, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Acute appendicitis with gangrenous changes resulting in the rupture of the appendiceal wall.

(Acute Perforated Appendicitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Appendicitis is a condition characterized by inflammation of the appendix, a small pouch attached to the beginning of the large intestine.

(Acute Appendicitis, NICHD)

A. putredinis is pathogenic in humans and farm animals, causing bacterial appendicitis and foot rot.

(Alistipes putredinis, NCI Thesaurus)

Infection in the abdominal cavity resulting from injury, acute intestinal inflammation (e.g., acute appendicitis), intestinal perforation, or complication of abdominal surgery.

(Abdominal Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Not everyone with appendicitis has all these symptoms.

(Appendicitis, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)