PHARYNGITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharyngitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the fauces and pharynx

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARYNGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the fauces and pharynx

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

pharyngitis; raw throat; sore throat

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

inflammatory disease (a disease characterized by inflammation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pharyngitis"):

septic sore throat; strep throat; streptococcal sore throat; streptococcus tonsilitis; throat infection (an infection of the oral pharynx and tonsils by streptococcus)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include pharyngitis and mucositis.

(Non-Neoplastic Pharyngeal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A. haemolyticum is found on human skin and mucus membranes of the upper respiratory tract, and is associated with pharyngitis and skin and tissue infections.

(Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include pharyngitis and carcinoma.

(Pharyngeal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

C. xerosis is commensal to the nasopharynx and skin in humans and is known to cause bacteremia, soft tissue infections, endocarditis, pharyngitis, and pneumonia especially in immunocompromised persons.

(Corynebacterium xerosis, NCI Thesaurus)