AORTITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aortitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the aorta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AORTITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the aorta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("aortitis" 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 "aortitis"):

rheumatic aortitis (aortitis occurring in rheumatic fever)