Arteritis

Quick meaning: Arteritis is a noun meaning (pathology) The inflammation of arterial walls, often due to infection or an autoimmune response.

Meaning

(pathology) The inflammation of arterial walls, often due to infection or an autoimmune response.

Example Sentences

In July, 1819, M. Dalbant, of Grenoble, presented to the Faculty of Medicine, of Paris, a Thesis on Arteritis, containing five cases of inflammation of the arterial coats.

Bacterial endocarditis or injection of a foreign substance along with the drug cannot fully explain the radiographic and pathologic changes, since the arteritis has been documented after oral or intranasal amphetamine.

Arteritis has been noticed in variola, especially in the hemorrhagic form of it, sometimes as early as in the period of eruption, at other times later, and, apart from the aorta, the coronary arteries are usually attacked.

Word Forms

• arteritides

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include periarteritis, arteriopathy, arteriolitis, aortitis, aortoarteritis, panarteritis.

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