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TEMPORAL ARTERITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does temporal arteritis mean?
• TEMPORAL ARTERITIS (noun)
The noun TEMPORAL ARTERITIS has 1 sense:
1. inflammation of the temporal arteries; characterized by headaches and difficulty chewing and (sometimes) visual impairment
Familiarity information: TEMPORAL ARTERITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of the temporal arteries; characterized by headaches and difficulty chewing and (sometimes) visual impairment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("temporal arteritis" is a kind of...):
arteritis (inflammation of an artery)
Context examples
It also may be associated with Lyme disease, Wegener's granulomatosis, Sjogren syndrome, cryoglobulinemia, hypereosinophilia, temporal arteritis, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, leprosy, acute viral hepatitis A, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
(Mononeuritis Multiplex, NCI Thesaurus)
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