STOMATITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stomatitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOMATITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("stomatitis" 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)

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

vesicular stomatitis (a disease of horses, cattle, swine, and occasionally human beings; caused by the vesiculovirus)

 Context examples 

Cicloxolone has been shown to impair Golgi apparatus functions related to transport of glycoproteins of vesicular stomatitis virus.

(Cicloxolone, NCI Thesaurus)

The vaccine was created using a live-attenuated (weakened) vesicular stomatitis virus to deliver proteins that elicit protective immune responses.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

It may be secondary to one of the immunodeficiency syndromes, inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, or associated with defects in cell-mediated immunity, endocrine disorders, dental stomatitis, or malignancy.

(Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is a recombinant live replication-competent virus based on vesicular stomatitis virus.

(Study confirms efficacy of NewLink Genetics ebola vaccine, Wikinews)

A viscous, oral hydrogel rinse intended for the management of oral mucositis/stomatitis.

(Mucoadhesive Oral Wound Rinse, NCI Thesaurus)