CHOLANGITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cholangitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the bile ducts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOLANGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the bile ducts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cholangitis" 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 

Representative examples include hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholangitis, and cholecystitis.

(Non-Neoplastic Hepatobiliary Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include hepatitis, cirrhosis, and cholangitis.

(Non-Neoplastic Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes asymptomatic elevation of the liver function tests, steatosis, cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, sclerosing cholangitis, biliary cirrhosis, and cholangiocarcinoma.

(Liver Disease Associated with Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholangitis, and polycystic liver disease.

(Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include cholangitis and cholecystitis.

(Biliary System Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholangitis, and cholecystitis.

(Hepatobiliary Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with cholangitis and the formation of stones.

(Caroli Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include cholangitis and biliary atresia.

(Non-Neoplastic Bile Duct Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include cholangitis and biliary atresia.

(Bile Duct Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)