CHOLECYSTITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cholecystitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the gall bladder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOLECYSTITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the gall bladder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cholecystitis" 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 cholecystitis and adenomyomatosis.

(Non-Neoplastic Gallbladder Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms usually present late in the course of the disease and are reminiscent of those of chronic cholecystitis including right upper quadrant pain.

(Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-neoplastic disorders include acute and chronic cholecystitis, often associated with the presence of gallstones.

(Gallbladder Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic cholecystitis not associated with the presence of gallstones.

(Chronic Acalculous Cholecystitis, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Non-Neoplastic Hepatobiliary 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 cholecystitis.

(Hepatobiliary Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Biliary System Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)