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ANGIITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does angiitis mean?
• ANGIITIS (noun)
The noun ANGIITIS has 1 sense:
1. inflammation of a blood vessel or lymph duct
Familiarity information: ANGIITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of a blood vessel or lymph duct
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("angiitis" is a kind of...):
angiopathy (any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts)
inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)
Context examples
Widespread necrotizing angiitis with granulomas.
(Churg-Strauss Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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