CELLULITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cellulitis mean? 

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

1. an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELLULITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cellulitis" 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 

M. odoratus is commonly found in soil and water and has been reported to cause opportunistic infections including cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis, urinary tract infections, and surgical wound infections.

(Myroides odoratus, NCI Thesaurus)

Cellulitis is an infection of the skin and deep underlying tissues.

(Cellulitis, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A question about whether an individual has or had decubitus ulcers, peripheral skin ulcers or repeated episodes of cellulitis.

(Has Decubitus Ulcer, Peripheral Skin Ulcer or Repeated Episodes of Cellulitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Some, like cellulitis, are the result of an infection.

(Connective Tissue Disorders, NIH)

H. cinaedi is found in the normal gut flora of hamsters and is an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients causing fever, gastroenteritis, bacteremia and recurrent cellulitis.

(Helicobacter cinaedi, NCI Thesaurus)

M. lacunata is a commensal organism of the human upper respiratory tract and most commonly associated with eye infections, but has been reported to cause rare invasive infections in humans, including endocarditis, septic arthritis, cellulitis, meningitis, bacteremia and purulent pericarditis.

(Moraxella lacunata, NCI Thesaurus)