VASCULITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vasculitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of a blood vessel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASCULITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of a blood vessel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("vasculitis" 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 

The vasculitis may lead to aneurysm formation and possibly, heart attacks.

(Kawasaki Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A small vessel vasculitis affecting the skin and/or internal organs.

(Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a type of vasculitis, or inflammation of the blood vessels.

(Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener's), NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Vasculitis affecting the blood vessels of the brain and/or spinal cord.

(Central Nervous System Vasculitis, NCI Thesaurus)

An autoimmune necrotizing vasculitis with the formation of granulomas.

(Churg-Strauss Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The childhood form of this disease tends to evolve into a systemic vasculitis.

(Dermatomyositis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Asthma or other respiratory infection may precede evidence of vasculitis.

(Churg-Strauss Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A systemic necrotizing vasculitis that typically affects the small and medium-sized muscular arteries.

(Microscopic Polyarteritis, NCI Thesaurus)

Vasculitis due to allergic reaction, marked by such cutaneous lesions as papules, macules, vesicles, urticarial wheals, purpura, and small ulcers, and accompanied by itching and usually a slight fever and malaise.

(Allergic Cutaneous Angiitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A systemic, usually self-limited immune complex vasculitis, characterized by immunoglobulin A deposition in the small vessels and kidneys.

(Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, NCI Thesaurus)